- People
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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
- Different Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don't know them.
- Nov 07, 2020
If you search for Colombia on The Nation's website, you will see how key the country has been in regional politics.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.
- Identity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have two bookcases that used to be filled with cookbooks, but now it's mostly books about politics and government. I might just give this all up and run for office.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.
- Complete Opposite
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was raised as a Christian, where all you're taught is to be humble, even if you did something right. Politics is the complete opposite of: you do something a little nice, and you tell everyone.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.
- Disqualified
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- Nov 07, 2020