There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.
I don’t talk about politics. Not getting involved in politics at all.
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were – to the very last minute – a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.
Every sphere of activity has a set of rules. Politics is no different.
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
Politics isn’t about big money or power games; it’s about the improvement of people’s lives.
I never talk about anything Hollywood or about politics. I will talk about how concerned I am about funding for Planned Parenthood, and how very sad it makes me when I see anything about children being separated from their parents.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Ralph Miliband was a socialist intellectual of great integrity. He belonged to a generation of socialists formed by the Russian revolution and the Second World War, a generation that dominated left-wing politics for almost a century.
There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.
Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.
Politics is pop. Our job as comedians – especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience – is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
In the rough and tumble world of business, media, or politics, the black knitted tie is indeed indispensable.
I try not to mix the politics as much with the band, per se, because my political views are my own; they’re not necessarily the band’s.
On certain issues, one has to rise above party politics for the country to run.
As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you’re trying to be taken seriously.
