3 December 2020 Joseph Stalin It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
3 December 2020 Michael Pollan The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.
3 December 2020 Warren G. Harding America’s present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.
3 December 2020 Eric Liu Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it’s usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women’s representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
3 December 2020 Nick Clegg You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It’s highly, highly polarised. It’s right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.
3 December 2020 Rip Torn Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.
3 December 2020 Ed Gillespie I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
3 December 2020 John Podhoretz This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud he sits upon the throne.
3 December 2020 Tony Kushner I don’t feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I’m a gay man.
3 December 2020 Newt Gingrich Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
3 December 2020 Al Gore I was in elective politics for 24 years. I’ve made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I’m enjoying them.
3 December 2020 Erich Fromm The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
3 December 2020 Bob Ehrlich We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.
3 December 2020 Laura Ingraham There’s a rule of thumb in politics. If you’re at a point where you’re complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that’s probably a sign that you’re losing.
3 December 2020 Ed Gillespie On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
3 December 2020 Bob Riley For too long, we have focused on our differences – in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs – rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
3 December 2020 Jesse Ventura I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I’m finished with my term as governor, I’m going back to the life that’s waiting for me in the private sector.
3 December 2020 Clare Boothe Luce The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
3 December 2020 Abba Eban It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
3 December 2020 Trey Parker I try not to tune in to politics until it’s two or three months before the election. Till then, it’s like watching preseason football.
3 December 2020 Nicholas D. Kristof Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
3 December 2020 Roger Ebert Well, you know what, I’m 60 years old, and I’ve been interested in politics since I was on my daddy’s knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
