Politics

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.

U.P. is always in news because of its politics.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.

I don't expect to ever put my family background to rest but I do expect to be taken seriously as a scholar, a writer and a Latin Americanist on my own terms, not defined through my parents and their history or politics.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

We're not into politics at all. We're just saying what other people are afraid to say.

Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access.

The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.

Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.

I don't like politics.

To me, politics is a pile of tricks.

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.

Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.

I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Nineteenth-century American politics were notoriously raucous, with frequent violence in and around elections.