There is no gambling like politics.
Fascism is capitalism in decay.
My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.
The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.
Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government. . . we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.
Comrades! We must abolish the cult of the individual decisively, once and for all
We tolerate, even promote, many things we once regarded as evil, wrong, or immoral. And then we seek "explanations" for an act that seems beyond comprehension. Remove societal restraints on some evils and one can expect the demons to be freed to conduct other evil acts.
We expect them [Salvadoran officials] to work toward the elimination of human rights.
I don't think Israel's becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There's a difference.
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
If you want to rise in politics in the United States, there is one subject you must stay away from, and that is politics.
I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill. . . we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.
There is an elementary aspiration which undergirds the humane impulse in our history and our culture and binds us together as political activists. This is a simple, irreducible, indisputable aspiration. It is the 'dream of justice' for a beloved community, in which the level of terror in people's lives is sharply reduced or maybe eliminated. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.