Feminism was working, and the civil rights movement was working, and all the other social justice movements were getting more and more support. So, in the 1980s, the CIA… hired some really clever linguists to invent a secret weapon; an incredibly complicated way of talking about politics that didn’t actually make any sense, but which […]
Politics Quotes
Every politician is emphatically a promising politician.
Hypocrisy is the vaseline of political intercourse.
Political passions, aroused everywhere, demand their victims.
It is terrible to contemplete how few politicians are hanged.
As is now generally admitted, a Soviet bomb would not have been achieved for several years more but for the success of Soviet espionage in obtaining secret information from Western scientists associated with the Manhattan Project. That is to say, political ideas in the minds of certain capable physicists and others took the form of […]
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don’t know how that fits into what everybody else is saying, their relative positions, but that’s my position. (Molly Ivins, the San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000)
The contradiction between political promise and performance is quite understandable when we dig into the nature of the business, breaking through the moral crust with which political institutions have surrounded themselves. When we look to beginnings, we see clearly what it is all about, for then the purpose of political power was unencumbered with persiflage; […]
Yet lies seem essential in politics and government. In a cynical mood, George Orwell once wrote, “Politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” That was unavoidable, he noted, because “political speech” is “largely the defense of the indefensible.” Nixon at one point told his friend Leonard Garment, “You’re never going […]
