Politics Quotes

“My son will go to a private school. I'm a politician, not a saint.”

“Heterosexuality is a political institution.”

“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hard-headed realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.”

“We cannot let this country be torn apart.”

“Rather than being tools of the state, multi-national corporations are now partners with the state.”

“The environment is the new socialism.”

“History is a graveyard of aristocracies.”

“We want to close this black chapter and open a new page of struggling through political means.”

“It's very important to distinguish between disagreeing with the policies of the state of Israel and being anti-semitic.”

“The chief problem is that the peoples of the democracies are not informed. They don't know the issues.”

“We must find a way to work together, even when we disagree.”

“To be a left-winger in this country is not a party affiliation. It's a character flaw.”

“Every advocate of a democratic government of a state is logically bound to support the democratic process in the government of that state.”

“An organization is political insofar as its policies are enforced by sanctions.”

“He [Saddam Hussein] is a brutal, ruthless dictator. And he is a liar.”

“When you cover politics, you realize that it's not a game of checkers. It's a game of three-dimensional chess.”

“My constituents expect me to be a leader and to exercise my own judgment.”

“I think it's important to have a sense of history when you're covering politics.”

“Dialogue is the only way to solve political crises.”

“Austerity is a political choice, not an economic necessity.”