Quotes tagged ‘Politics’

(525 total)

“Sporks spark joy.”

“[seeing his daughter Lucilla spying in through the slit in the tent wall] Marcus Aurelius: If only you had been born a man, what a Caesar you would have made. Lucilla: Father. [kisses him on his cheeks] Marcus Aurelius: You would have been strong. I wonder, would you have been just? Lucilla: I would…”

— David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, Maximus Decimus Meridius, Russell Crowe, imdb.com

“What can we do to effect meaningful change and create the just, fair, and secure future we all desire?”

— Howard Schultz, amazon.com

“In today's political environment, your feelings about Trump actually have an impact on how people feel about you.”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“Policies have real-world consequences, regardless of how much we wish they don't. It's failure to cope with that basic fact that leads to so much of the finger-pointing we see in politics, with each side accusing the other of bad intention -- as though pointing out a policy's failure is equivalent t…”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“Wokescolds are the new representatives of moral panic. We've seen plenty of moral panic before in the United States, from worries about violent video games, to concern about allegations of sex abuse at day care facilities. But never have we seen a moral panic of the stunning breadth of today's woke…”

— Ben Shapiro, townhall.com

“At these moments of national crisis, the words that spread and the words that were heard were not the words of politicians, they were the words of poets.”

— Susannah Herbert, Donna Ferguson, theguardian.com

“Though the various techniques differ, Ebner suggests that the goal is the same: By recruiting women to the movement, they gain more legitimacy.”

— Hussein Kesvani, melmagazine.com

“Even if you’re willing to accept rationalizations for associating with an anti-Semite, the point of organizing is to build political power, and in that respect the leaders of the Women’s March have fallen short. They were put at the helm of a popular mass movement, and under their leadership it has…”

— Michelle Goldberg, nytimes.com

“Here’s the thing: very simple with politics. He’s the president. No matter what anyone says, he’s still the president. I have no feeling. I have no emotion.”

— Lindsay Lohan, nytimes.com

“Gillibrand’s most natural path might be to start with Party Loyalists and build out a coalition from there. But her calls for Sen. Al Franken to resign — issued after several women accused him of groping them — reportedly triggered a backlash among some donor-class Democrats, who [warning, editorial…”

— Nate Silver, fivethirtyeight.com

“The focus on undeserving minorities receiving unearned benefits at white expense is not an incidental element of modern Republican politics; it is crucial to the GOP’s electoral strategy of dividing working-class voters along racial lines.”

— Adam Serwer, theatlantic.com

“I was just a young lawyer thinking, What am I doing with my life? What am I doing with my career? As I watched [Hillary Clinton] on that stage I thought, Why aren’t I there? It was so poignant for me. And that’s what made me figure out how to get involved in politics.”

— Kirsten Gillibrand, nymag.com

“[Hillary Clinton] was trying to encourage us to become more active in politics and she said, 'If you leave all the decision-making to others, you might not like what they do, and you will have no one but yourself to blame.' It was such a challenge to the women in the room. And it really hit me: She’…”

— Kirsten Gillibrand, vogue.com

“I think Trump is going to be harder to beat than people think….Because he has an extremely energized base. Because every decision he makes is politically calculated to ensure his own survival and success...Republicans [are] by and large complicit. You have a guy who never does the right thing for th…”

— Seth Moulton, mcclatchydc.com

“The White House has called the plan 'a nonstarter,' saying that it 'fails to secure the border, and puts the needs of other countries above the needs of our own citizens.'”

— Eric Lutz, vanityfair.com

“While Florida’s strengths are America’s strengths, Florida’s problems are also America’s problems.”

— R.T. Brant, bustle.com

“In 2016, a host asked Hillary Clinton what’s something she always has in her bag. “Hot sauce,” she said. Critics claimed she said this to pander to black voters because of Beyoncé’s “hot sauce in my bag” lyric.But she has been talking about hot sauce in her bag for 20+ years.””

— Ashton Pittman, twitter.com

“What the reaction to Ocasio-Cortez makes undeniable is that if and when women gain enough power to start behaving, in a political sphere, as men have for so long, they will be viewed with fright and discomfort.”

— Rebecca Traister, thecut.com

“Sometimes political media is too fixated on personalities instead of policies.”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, twitter.com