“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”
Politics affects everything, whether you pay attention to it or not. These quotes cover power, democracy, partisanship, idealism, corruption, and the exhausting but essential work of trying to govern millions of people who disagree about nearly everything.
“Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.”
“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.”
“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”
“Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.”
“Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.”
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.”
“Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.”
“If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.”
“My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.”
“Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.”
“Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.”
“African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.”
“First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.”
“It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.”
“If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.”