I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
I'd always admired the intellectuals who had made the transition into politics - Mario Vargas Llosa in Peru, Vaclav Havel in the Czech Republic, Carlos Fuentes in Mexico - but I knew that many of them had failed, and in any event, I wasn't exactly in their league.
I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.
Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.
Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy - it's a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.
I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.
I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.
'The Truth About Lorin Jones' will undoubtedly shock and offend as many readers as it will amuse, since it dares to make fun of feminism - of its manners, if not its politics.
In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.
In the arsenal of the phony, the politics of God is one of the deadliest punches to the sweet spot of the American mind.
