- Progressive
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- Nov 07, 2020
Politics Quotes
Voices on ideology, debate, and public life.
These politics quotes range from a personal statement linking radical belief to the character of one's work, to an observation that casual conversation about politics rarely gets taken too seriously. Together they capture politics as something people engage with unevenly, with real distance between everyday talk and lasting conviction.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.
- Bumper
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- Nov 07, 2020
My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When all Americans believe that the people we elect deserve to be in power, that their conduct in office is worthy of respect, and that they can be held accountable for their decisions, our politics will finally be worthy of our great people.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't even know if people even care what a 27-year-old Jewish kid thinks about politics.
- Justice
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there was one fact that sent me hurtling off to write 'Politics Lost,' it was when I learned that John Kerry had focus-grouped Abu Ghraib. We knew about the Justice Department memo in June of 2004, and Kerry didn't raise that in any one of his three debates with George Bush.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a basic law, Klein's second, or third, or fourth law of politics in the TV age, which is warm always beats cold, with the exception of Richard Nixon. The nicer guy usually wins.
- Personal
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- Nov 07, 2020