Quotes of: Political-issues Keyword

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

Letters of Thomas Jefferson

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

A Mencken Chrestomathy

Political stress is always apt to shrink the private arena and attach it on to the public

The Shock of the New

Manners count. Be polite and seek out the common ground, not just the high ground.

Paris in April

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

Real Christianity

You shit sheep shapes, and I shit wolves as brown as bark. It’s all politics.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If a policy isn’t working, don’t change the policy—change its name. That should be taught in Politics 101.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

[Poetry] is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.

What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics

I planted a plastic plant, but nothing grew but political hope. I watered it with the tears of the voters.

Xazaqazax

The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.

Beau Willimon

I have no idea what my best material is. Different people like different things. I'll say this: The political stuff gets the press, but the relationship jokes sell all the seats.

Chris Rock

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

Ma Ying-jeou

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.

Rick Perlstein

Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.

Stephen Kinzer

I believe in Las Vegas. I think its best days are ahead of it. But I'm afraid to do anything in the current political environment in the United States.

Steve Wynn

After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.

Najib Razak

It would not be a bad idea if bankers were to go and sit occasionally with politicians in their political surgeries, where they might get a sense of the injustice that some of the community feel about the banks.

Prince Andrew

Periods of cooperation between political parties shouldn't be taken for granted; they are a stunning human achievement.

Paul Bloom

Global warming, like Marxism, is a political theory of actions, demanding compliance with its rules.

Paul Johnson

One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

P. J. O'Rourke