“We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.”
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.
“In argument, truth always prevails finally in politics, falsehood always.”
“We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.”
“I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.”
“I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.”
“When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.”
“Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.”
“A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
“I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
“Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.”
“People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.”
“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.”
“I look for the humanity in people, however big the politics or oppressive the situation may be, whether it's subsumed within a human being or between two human beings. I want to help us hold a mirror to ourselves.”
“The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.”
“The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.”