The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks – upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics – is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
I love comedians that dive into politics. I personally don’t feel comfortable, with my background, weighing in unless I have a take that I think is funny enough that I would put it in front of an audience.
Although he’s regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.
I don’t want to be a politician. I don’t like politics. It’s petty; it fights dirty.
I’m passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I’m despondent. I’m disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.
Always, since our birth, we’ve insisted on another way of doing politics. Now, we had the chance to do it without arms, but without stopping being Zapatistas; that’s why we keep the masks on.
Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn’t you know?
We don’t have to settle for disgraceful politics. We don’t have to settle for being as terrible as Donald Trump.
No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.
Either one lives ‘for’ politics or one lives ‘off’ politics.
Like several hundred thousand fellow Karelians, we became refugees in our own country as great power politics caused the borders of Finland to be redrawn and left my home town as part of the Soviet Union.
The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed – everything.
Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.
To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.
I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.
What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
I have completed 43 years in politics and have been a minister of state, chief minister, and a Cabinet minister. A person who survives so many years is bound to face some attacks. It doesn’t affect me because I know the truth.
I’ve never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.
In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine – an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog – diverting attention from something significant.
