Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.
We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
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.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.