Zitat des Tages über Politik / Politics:
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.
Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.
For sure, the 'Obamania' that's fast taking hold reflects an incredible thirst for change in global politics and, dare I say, a wave of optimism that things can be different.
I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.
I think you'll see a lot more people in the Valley get more involved in politics.
All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.
Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
I am not going to participate in professional politics again.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
I am not comfortable discussing politics publicly; I am very comfortable talking about my friendships with people who happen to be in politics.
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
You can unite behind a candidate and a vision for America without rejecting another candidate and their vision, because in real life, opposed to party politics, we Democrats are on the same side.
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.
Politics has become entertainment.
I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.
I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future.
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics.
In journalism, as in politics, other people's lives are a currency to be bartered on behalf of notoriety and influence.
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.
These political consultants love business guys who've never been in politics to try and take advantage of them. I get that.
Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.
Politics is just show business for ugly people.