3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
3 December 2020 James McGreevey But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don’t mix. This is the stock response of the left.
3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
3 December 2020 Gertrude Stein There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.
3 December 2020 Thomas Friedman No matter where I go – London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore – I’m always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people’s lives better, not pull them apart.
3 December 2020 Grover Norquist Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.
3 December 2020 Daniel Hannan You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
3 December 2020 Frances O'Grady The TUC’s new slogan ‘a future that works’ sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn’t suffer fools – a striving politician who considers himself above politics.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God’s infinite mercy, a last resort.
3 December 2020 Paul Ryan We need leadership. We don’t need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
3 December 2020 Gary Hart I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
3 December 2020 Henry Cabot Lodge We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
3 December 2020 Hillary Clinton In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
3 December 2020 Wallace Shawn In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
3 December 2020 Meg Greenfield If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.
3 December 2020 William O. Douglas Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
3 December 2020 George Orwell In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
3 December 2020 Kjell Magne Bondevik We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers It isn’t fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she’s taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
3 December 2020 Susan George It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
