Politics Quotes - Page 66

This is what many people in the movie industry don't get: when you express hostility to conservatives, many Americans feel that you're expressing hostility to them.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go.

The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics.

Environmentalism has already killed somewhere between 10-30 million people since the 1970s.

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Nothing corrupts a politician quite as much as friendship. Good politicians don't bribe; they make us like them.

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

A good man who did a bad thing.

Quit demagoguing. It's not true.

This is such music to my ears. James Carville advocating a tax cut to stimulate the economy.

Make no mistake about those who call themselves anti Zionist are anti Semitic.

Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly.

When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible.

Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids.

The Democrats smell blood and don't want to be told that it's their own.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.

Capitalism has made it this way, old fashioned fascism will take it away.

He [Harry S. Truman] loved politicians - even Republicans.

There are no personal sympathies in politics.

Political success is a good deal pleasanter than political failure, but it too brings its problems.

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them.