My close proximity to many of the newsmakers can give me a different perspective about people in politics and what they might say than others who don’t know them. – Greta Van Susteren
I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it. – Hunter S. Thompson
The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. – Grover Norquist
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. – Harry S Truman
First, take the government of the Indians out of politics; second, let the laws of the Indians be the same as those of the whites; third, give the Indian the ballot. – George Crook
The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead. – Harold Rosenberg
What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy. – Ha-Joon Chang
I’ve traveled around the world, and what’s so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences. – Howard Schultz
There’s not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics. – Heather Brooke
We are still living with a double standard. I know it. Every woman I know knows it, whether you’re in the media as a woman, or you’re in the professions or business or politics. – Hillary Clinton
The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics – to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans. – Henrique Capriles Radonski
Whenever a technology enables people to organize at a pace that wasn’t before possible, new kinds of politics emerge. – Howard Rheingold
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. – Herbert Hoover
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. – Hillary Clinton
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Groucho Marx
I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on. – Helen Gahagan
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken
Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it’s just 18-year-old kids. – Gideon Raff
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. – Hillary Clinton
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. – Hillary Clinton
About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston. – Howie Carr
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. – G. M. Trevelyan
I can’t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. – Gerhard Schroder
War is, in fact, an extension of politics, and in any war, military operations have to be conducted in such a way that they contribute to sustainable political outcomes consistent with vital interests that are at stake in that war. – H. R. McMaster