NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.
Religion should not be allowed to come into Politics. . . . Religion is merely a matter between man and God.
In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
War is merely a continuation of politics.
No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.
I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can
Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?
I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.
Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians.
As for our majority. . . one is enough.
Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.
By the worldly standards of public life, all scholars in their work are of course oddly virtuous. They do not make wild claims, they do not cheat, they do not try to persuade at any cost, they appeal neither to prejudice nor to authority, they are often frank about their ignorance, their disputes are fairly decorous, they do not confuse what is being argued with race, politics, sex or age, they listen patiently to the young and to the old who both know everything. These are the general virtues of scholarship, and they are peculiarly the virtues of science.
There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.
Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!
The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.
If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
Barack is one of the smartest people you will ever encounter who will deign to enter this messy thing called politics.
Office tends to confer a dreadful plausibility on even the most negligible of those who hold it.
