Politics Quotes - Page 42

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

You've got to work things out in the cloakroom, and when you've got them worked out, you can debate a little before you vote.

Life is politics, basically, but you don't just go to a gallery and put the words 'art' and 'politics' on the wall.

Had Marx understood the implications of the principles of capitalistic distribution which presented themselves to him as "appearances" only, he might have become a revolutionary capitalist instead of a revolutionary socialist.

The duty of an Opposition is to oppose.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

George W. Bush is evil. He is a terrorist. He is evil. He is arrogant. And he is out of control.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State is able to determine the aggregate amount of resources devoted to augmenting the instruments and the basic rate of reward to those who own them, it will have accomplished all that is necessary. Moreover, the necessary measures of socialization can be introduced gradually and without a break in the general traditions of society.

There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

I'm an idealist without illusions.