3 December 2020 Stephen Leacock It’s called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn’t be something that interested them.
3 December 2020 Aung San Suu Kyi In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren’t frightened as they used to be.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
3 December 2020 Mel Gibson Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you’re going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn’t – now – and this is the honest truth.
3 December 2020 Al Franken Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I’ve been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you’re under pressure.
3 December 2020 Robert Byrne A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
3 December 2020 Christopher Hitchens The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
3 December 2020 Lucy Powell Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Bakunin Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
3 December 2020 Neal Barnard The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
3 December 2020 Grover Norquist The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, ‘Oh, Grover Norquist has power.’ No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.
3 December 2020 Emma Bonino I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.
3 December 2020 John Mellencamp I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty it fights dirty.
3 December 2020 Paul Wellstone A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people’s lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
3 December 2020 R. Buckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
3 December 2020 Doug Coupland Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
3 December 2020 Margaret Fuller Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
3 December 2020 John W. Gardner For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
3 December 2020 B. R. Ambedkar Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
