Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn’t matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.
We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
I think politics come out of psychology.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn’t understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into ‘us’ vs. ‘them.’
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
In politics, you’re like a toilet seat: you’re up one day and down the next.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
We don’t have time to play politics with people’s lives or the planet’s future.
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Politics swings like a pendulum.
