Politics Quotes - page 83

Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress. (Jeffrey Tucker)
Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing. View quote
Jennifer Pahlka
I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely. View quote
Jack Germond
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it. View quote
Jack Germond
I grew up in an apolitical household. I never left the country. When I became an adult, I started traveling and became interested in politics, and I probably talked about things in a silly, ignorant way. View quote
Jesse Eisenberg
I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense. View quote
Jim Bolger
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure. View quote
Jim Doyle
Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts. View quote
Jim Leach
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. View quote
Jim Leach
In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's. View quote
Jim Lehrer
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. (Jimmy Breslin)
I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country. View quote
Joan Blades
I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics. View quote
Joan Cusack
The Patriotic Millionaires campaign, pulled together quickly by the Agenda Project in New York City, just happens to appear on the same day as a new study from the Center for Responsive Politics revealing that half of the members of the House and the Senate are millionaires. View quote
Joe Conason
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie. View quote
Joe Eszterhas
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. View quote
Joe Eszterhas
I am who I am. In politics when you treat people well and they know you're honest, straight and sincere, I think it's an advantage. Just because somebody comes from a hard-boiled political culture doesn't make him a good U.S. senator. View quote
Joe Kyrillos
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks. View quote
Joe Scarborough
I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton. View quote
Joe Scarborough
Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. View quote
Johann Lamont
Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause. (Johann Lamont)
I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics. View quote
John Bercow
It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me. View quote
John Bercow
When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative. View quote
John Bercow
I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want. View quote
John Bercow