Political Quotes - Page 170

They worry one another like mastiffs, scrambling for rank and pay like apes for nuts.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

Nearly half the earth's surface is unclaimed by any country, so seasteads would be startup countries on the blue frontier. Patri Friedman is a Google engineer and theorist of political economy who realized that if society floated, it would completely change the nature of governance itself. If seasteads are modular and can be moved about, allowing people to choose new societies, we'd create a market of governance providers, competing to attract residents.

With the coming of television, and the knowledge of how it could be used to seduce voters, the old political values disappeared. Something new, murky, undefined started to rise from the mists.

For those of us who consider ourselves political moderates, life is a dispiriting slog, a sorry mix of rectitude and ineptitude.

I just can't surrender. I can't start something and then surrender because of political reasons. I just don't do that, and that goes back to me, why I keep running when I should probably take it easy, even though I have no hobbies, and enjoy the rest of my life.

Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

The discussion of derivatives in the political world has become a zero sum game.

There is no question that many people are intimidated and scared. However, the majority of voters are clamoring for something else. So if word gets out that there actually is a candidate out there of integrity, who is not poisoned by corporate money, you could see a lot of people come together from across the political spectrum.

My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

The overarching issue, as I see it, is the elitism of America's political system; the fact that regular, ordinary Americans aren't considered in policy debates or legislation, and regularly get shafted by the powers-that-be in Washington.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

The use of EU summits to frame political victories or defeats is an annoying habit.

Like in [the 1950s] if you wanted to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood you claimed he was a Communist. Nowadays, you want to ruin someone´s career in Hollywood, you claim they are Republican.

What may begin as a temporary method to circumvent reasoned discussion and debate for the sake of a prized political goal may very well end up permanently undermining the trust required for its existence.

If in a democratic country nothing can be permanently achieved save through the masses of the people, it will be impossible to establish a higher political life than the people themselves crave.

I think we need someone in a responsible political position to have the courage to say, 'Let's terminate human spaceflight.'

Among the lessons taught by the French revolution, there is none sadder or more striking than this--that you may make everything else out of the passions of men except a political system that will work, and that there is nothing so pitilessly and unconsciously cruel as sincerity formulated into dogma.