A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Many people don’t give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
A deep appreciation for politics comes from empathy for our fellow human beings and their diverse paths through life.
I never wanted to separate from either wife. It was accumulated stress. We had virtually no time to ourselves. After politics we were both working very hard to establish new careers.
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
You’ll never get me to speak religion. You’ll never get me to speak politics.
I think good governance and good politics can go together.
I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.
Architecture is a technology. And it’s involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture – including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.
The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.
In politics, guts is all.
I’m into politics – I’m interested in the election and how pissed off people get.
We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
It’s really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you’re going to get it to these people.
We’ve got to take confrontation out of the centre of politics. With fighting, no one wins; with dialogue, everyone wins.
The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.
People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life… Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
