Political Observation Quotes

#1. Come senators, congressmen
Please heed the call
Don't stand in the doorway
Don't block up the hall
For he that gets hurt
Will be he who has stalled
There's a battle outside ragin'.
It'll soon shake your windows
And rattle your walls
For the times they are a-changin'.

Bob Dylan

#2. I sought in political reporting what Galsworthy in another context had called "the significant trifle" - the bit of dialogue, the overlooked fact, the buried observation which illuminated the realities of the situation.

I. F. Stone

#3. I concluded by saying that the SEALs in that room truly gave meaning to George Orwell's observation that "people sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." page 546

Robert M. Gates

#4. We must consider not only why the classical theory of democracy appears to be in contradiction with the observed practice, but also why the many different responses to this observation, though mutually incompatible, all share the belief that democracy is the best form of political organization.

Moses Finley

#5. Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best

Otto Von Bismarck

#6. Both groups [of pundits] were critics, and that is the heart of the problem. If you are a pundit, you seem so smart when you are telling the President what he did wrong ... This [is] mostly BS.

Jeffrey A. Miller

#7. And Preacher, the notorious thinks with his dick man, he was all the bad decisions a woman could ever make and a lifetime of regret all wrapped up in a six foot six rock hard package.

V. Theia

#8. I flattered myself by thinking that, if faced with such a circumstance, I would respond within the letter of the law; but passion is a strange thing, a thing that warps and twists everything with which it comes in contact.

Craig Johnson

#9. When widely followed public figures feel free to say anything, without any fact-checking, it becomes impossible for a democracy to think intelligently about big issues.

Thomas L. Friedman

#10. I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.

Yngwie Malmsteen

#11. Upon closer observation, it becomes apparent that every strong upsurge of power in the public sphere, be it of a political or a religious nature, infects a large part of humankind with stupidity.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#12. Justice was like coloured balls in a magician's hand, changing colour and shape all the time beneath the light of politics.

Qiu Xiaolong

#13. Time's arrow points one way only. Even the moment just past cannot be returned to.

Russell Hoban

#14. Political Party Supremacy are principles where the interests (and manifestos) of a political party is placed ahead of interests of individuals, sectional interests or the interference of another political party

Mike Jack Stoumbos

#15. [David] Maraniss sees [Barack] Obama as a man with a moviegoer's or writer's sensibility, where he is both participating and observing himself participating, and views much of the political process as ridiculous or surreal, even as he is deep into it.

Jane Mayer

#16. There are moments in history when men who are not necessarily fools or cowards behave as if they felt themselves conscientious executors named to administer some general heritage of cowardice and folly...

Edmond Taylor

#17. The difference between Nazism and Communism is just the size of the leader's moustache.

Adriano Bulla

#18. Donald Trump is acting as a political Samson that threatens to bring the den of iniquity crashing down on its patrons.

Ilana Mercer

#19. As a stone in the sea withers from water,
and a stone at the mountaintop withers from heat,
and a stone in the air withers from wind,
so a degenerate person withers from vice.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#20. Politics and justice seldom walk hand in hand.

Wayne Gerard Trotman