But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
The place to find the explanation for the liberal-activist mindset of the courts is in the political arena.
And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.
Sentimentality was used because other political avenues were closed, and authors hoped that through it they could bring about a political change that would fulfill the egalitarian promises of the Revolution. Real political venues were unavailable, so...
While the popular understanding of anarchism is of a violent, anti-State movement, anarchism is a much more subtle and nuanced tradition then a simple opposition to government power. Anarchists oppose the idea that power and domination are necessary ...
Americans tend to use "nation" as a synonym for "country." But political scientists and historians, as well as many Europeans, tend to use the term for a much more specific phenomenon: a group of people who feel they belong together, whether they hav...
The actual results of political diplomacy can openly be seen in critical moments. Turkey can insist on leading a very successful foreign policy, however, the acceptance of the fact of the Armenian Genocide by any influential global organization evide...
Political conflicts are merely surface manifestations. If conflicts arise you may be sure that certain powers intend to keep this conflict under operation since they hope to profit from the situation. To concern yourself with surface political confli...
The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundament...
De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of reliance on logic.
Actually, it was only part of myself I wanted to kill: the part that wanted to kill herself, that dragged me into the suicide debate and made every window, kitchen implement, and subway station a rehearsal for tragedy.
the instant she made a point of telling me I was just as good as them, I saw that the whole question was open to debate and she was cheering me on because I was on the losing team
The more degrees of freedom there are in practice, the wider the discussion and debate can be.
