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Politics Quotes
ElectionsPoliticsVoter Turnout The Democrats do fine in presidential elections; their problem is they can't get out the vote in the midterm elections.
CriticismHuman RightsHumorIronyPolitics I can make a joke pointing out that David Cameron told off Sri Lanka for human rights abuses committed with weapons Britain sold it - like Ronald McDonald calling you a fat bastard.
AudienceCommunicationManipulationPerceptionPolitics A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.
GovernanceLeadershipPoliticsPublic ServiceSeriousness Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
American LeftImagePerceptionPoliticsStereotypes One of the many problems with the American left has been its image as something rather too solemn, mirthless, herbivorous, dull, monochrome, righteous, and boring.
GoodnessHistoryImpactLeadershipPolitics I don't think there is one president that's come down the line that hasn't done something good somewhere.
CorruptionPervasivenessPolitics 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.
CensorshipExpressionFreedom of SpeechMediaPolitics A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
HumorPoliticsSatire People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
CampaignsGovernanceLeadershipPolitics Gray Davis can run a dirty campaign better than anyone, but he can't run a state.
EducationIndividual EmancipationPassionsPoliticsReligion Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
ChangeHistoryLeadershipPoliticsPopulism In 1976, Jimmy Carter - peanut farmer; carried his own suitcase, imagine that - somewhat tapped America's durable but shallow reservoir of populism. By 1980, ordinariness in high office had lost its allure.
AdaptationAuthor's ViewsLiteraturePoliticsQuality I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.
InfluenceLegislationMoney in PoliticsPolitics I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed.
Military DefensePeacePoliticsTechnology Ronald Reagan said that he sought a Star Wars defense only in order to share the technology with the tyrants of the U.S.S.R.
DemocracyFreedomPoliticsSocial JusticeWealth Inequality We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.
ArtistsMusicOpinionPoliticsSatire A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.
AuthorityGovernanceLeadershipPoliticsUnity The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
Expression of PreferencePartisanshipPoliticsVoting I told y'all I didn't vote, right? But if I would've voted, I would've voted for Trump.
HumorPoliticsSatire Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
InfluenceMoney S RolePolitics Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
