3 December 2020 Roland Joffe Even if we don’t know it or aren’t aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.
3 December 2020 Lady Bird Johnson Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
3 December 2020 Dwight D. Eisenhower Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
3 December 2020 Fred F. Fielding But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel’s job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.
3 December 2020 Thomas Sowell The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
3 December 2020 George Saunders Whatever your supposed politics are – left, right – if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
3 December 2020 Evan Bayh I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa’s leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
3 December 2020 Dick Gregory In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.
3 December 2020 Robert Kennedy Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Edwards One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It’s usually advised by consultants who don’t want to see you march to the end of a limb.
3 December 2020 Gore Vidal Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
3 December 2020 Luke Ford In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.
3 December 2020 David Miliband Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.
3 December 2020 H. Rap Brown The only politics in this country that’s relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution… none other.
3 December 2020 Peggy Noonan Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
3 December 2020 Thomas P. O'Neill You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job.
3 December 2020 William Randolph A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.
3 December 2020 Mary McCarthy In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
3 December 2020 Caroline Kennedy Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
3 December 2020 LL Cool J I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.
3 December 2020 Winfield Scott Hancock My politics are of a practical kind – the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
3 December 2020 Barbara Bush You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
3 December 2020 Lindsey Graham President Obama chose politics over leadership. ‘Hope’ and ‘Change’ have become bait-and-switch.
