Politics Observation Quotes & Sayings

Society is full of possibilities, is this possible to make all to think like children then there will be no politics. — Vikram Roy

Political Party Supremacy are principles where the interests (and manifestos) of a political party is placed ahead of interests of individuals, sectional interests or the interference of another political party — Mike Jack Stoumbos

Fascism is a lie, but an alluring one". — Ken Follett

Donald Trump is acting as a political Samson that threatens to bring the den of iniquity crashing down on its patrons. — Ilana Mercer

We are in a prison of our own minds holding our own chains around us. We create our oligarchs and fight for their right to oppress us. — Heather Marsh

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best — Otto Von Bismarck

Samuel Taylor Coleridge was right when he claimed, 'In politics, what begins in fear usually ends up in folly.' Political activists are more inclined, though, to heed an observation from Richard Nixon: 'People react to fear, not love. They don't teach that in Sunday school, but it's true.' That principle, which guided the late president's political strategy throughout his career, is the sine qua non of contemporary political campaigning. Marketers of products and services ranging from car alarms to TV news programs have taken it to heart as well.

The short answer to why Americans harbor so many misbegotten fears is that immense power and money await those who tap into our moral insecurities and supply us with symbolic substitutes. — Barry Glassner

Revenge is not redress. Revenge is a wheel, and it turns backwards. — Terry Pratchett

All empires become arrogant. It is their nature. — Edward Rutherfurd

How can we be a polis when 95 percent of us would rather watch aging housewives bicker on TV than express a well-formed opinion of our own? — Jade Chang

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics. — Ban Ki-moon

If we look more closely, we see that any violent display of power, whether political or religious, produces an outburst of folly in a large part of mankind; indeed, this seems actually to be a psychological and sociological law: the power of some needs the folly of others. It is not that certain human capacities, intellectual capacities for instance, become stunted of destroyed, but rather that the upsurge of power makes such an overwhelming impression that men are deprived of their independent judgment, and ... give up trying to assess the new state of affairs for themselves. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache. — Adriano Bulla

What some politicians really mean when they say

this country: me, my party, my ethnic group
international justice is biased: they want to arrest me
terrorists: opposition
illegal immigrants: refugees
elections: remaining in power
peace: eliminating the opposition
international community: the rich countries
the people: sympathisers of my party — Bangambiki Habyarimana

We have passed some of the dirtiest chapters of mankind. Perhaps we are heading towards further inhuman treatments in many places such as Syria and Palestine. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

It can also be useful to politics, enabling that science to discover how much of it is no more than verbal construction, myth, literary tops. Politics, like literature, must above all know itself and distrust itself. As a final observation, I should like to add that it is impossible today for anyone to feel innocent, if in whatever we do or say we can discover a hidden motive - that of a white man, or a male, or the possessor of a certain income, or a member of a given economic system, or a sufferer from a certain neurosis - this should not induce in us either a universal sense of guilt or an attitude of universal accusation. When we become aware of our disease or of our hidden motives, we have already begun to get the better of them. What matters is the way in which we accept our motives and live through the ensuing crisis. This is the only chance we have of becoming different from the way we are - that is, the only way of starting to invent a new way of being. — Italo Calvino

Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics. — Qiu Xiaolong

When people communicate deceit, it's called politics. When people communicate honesty, it's called art. — Gerard De Marigny

I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. Unsuccesful rebellions indeed generally establish the incroachments on the rights of the people which have produced them. An observation of this truth should render honest republican governors so mild in their punishment of rebellions, as not to discourage them too much. It is a medecine necessary for the sound health of government. — Thomas Jefferson

When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues. — Thomas L. Friedman

One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead; — Ethan Canin

If you treat people right they will treat you right ... ninety percent of the time. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand. — Wayne Gerard Trotman

It is not places that are dangerous, but people — Martin Cohen

You don't get to be the president of anything if you have bad manners. — Daven Anderson

The poor man is called a socialist if he believes that the wealth of the rich should be divided among the poor, but the rich man is called a financier if he devises a plan by which the pittance of the poor can be converted to his use. — William Jennings Bryan

Emphasis on "American made products"
will help us if the currency falls. — Phil Mitchell

Did you know that the United States is ranked fiftieth in the world in life expectancy? And the forty-nine loser countries where they live longer than us...they live shackled to the tyranny of nonprofit health care. Here in America, you're not coughing up blood, little Bobby, you're coughing up freedom! — Bill Maher

Freedom of speech and freedom of action are meaningless without freedom to think. And there is no freedom of thought without doubt. — Bergen Evans

Carl von Clausewitz, a nineteenth-century Prussian general and military theorist, had said that war was nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means. Similarly, the famous observation of French politician Charles Maurice de Talleyrand that war is much too serious a thing to be left to military men is eternally valid. — T.V. Rajeswar

Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'. — Bob Dylan

The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. — Sarah Palin

[David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it. — Jane Mayer

Communists in power would be as oppressive as the aristocracy they replaced. — Ken Follett

A Man Without Honor
is Worse than Dead. — Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra

All that evening he talked to the Candle of Arras, in a low confidential tone. When you get down to it, he thought, there's not much difference between politics and sex; it's all about
power. He didn't suppose he was the first person in the world to make this observation. It's a question of seduction, and how fast and cheap you can effect it: if Camille, he thought, approximates to one of those little milliners who can't make ends meet - in other words, an absolute pushover - then Robespierre is a Carmelite, mind set on becoming Mother Superior. You can't corrupt her; you can wave your cock under her nose, and she's neither shocked nor interested: why should she be, when she hasn't the remotest idea
what it's for? — Hilary Mantel

Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong ... This [is] mostly BS. — Jeffrey A. Miller

Politics ruins the character — Otto Von Bismarck

Individuals are prey to institutions in modern mass societies ... Individuals can struggle mightily against institutionalized conditions, but without changing the institutions themselves, those efforts will be largely for naught, since people
tire, lose focus, forget, and, eventually, give up their ghosts, while institutions share no such limitations. — Brian Awehali