3 December 2020 Oriana Fallaci I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
3 December 2020 Alan Clark There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
3 December 2020 Lindsey Graham Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I’m going to do is play politics with their future.
3 December 2020 Jesse Jackson Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They’re free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
3 December 2020 Richard Powers This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle I don’t take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.
3 December 2020 Jack Kemp There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.
3 December 2020 Harvey Weinstein George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they’re gonna go back and say, ‘Oh, that was American politics in that time period.’ I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic.
3 December 2020 John Major Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
3 December 2020 Kenneth Robert Livingstone I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can’t do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you – and it’s often a long haul.
3 December 2020 Zell Miller I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
3 December 2020 Eliza Dushku My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She’s a professor in Boston, and she’s been teaching women’s studies for 30 years and international politics.
3 December 2020 H. G. Wells In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
3 December 2020 Eliot Spitzer In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it’s single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.
3 December 2020 Frank Lloyd Wright A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
3 December 2020 Gore Vidal Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
3 December 2020 Chester Brown I think politics is important. It’s how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don’t understand why some people don’t.
3 December 2020 Karl Rove For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
3 December 2020 Francois Hollande I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
3 December 2020 Will Rogers The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
3 December 2020 Garry Trudeau When you’re young, with less on the line, it’s easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation – politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. – to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.
3 December 2020 Barack Obama In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
3 December 2020 Christopher Lasch The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
