Politics Quotes

Unprecedented crises demand unprecedented action.

It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

It’s true that it’s within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

Intellectuals analyze the operations of international systems; statesmen build them.

If we are going to restore faith in the American political system, we must act boldly.

Congress cannot go home until we address economic suffering.

All political power comes from the barrel of either guns, pussy, or opium pipes, and people seem to like it that way.

Fiction is truth. I think fiction is the truest thing there ever was. My whole effort is to remove that distinction. The writer is the midwife of understanding. It’s very important for me to tell politics like a story, to make it real.