The creative tension with spirituality vs. practicality in the world of politics is a vital conversation.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Richard Nixon was a very complex man. I don't think he was a conservative, nor liberal, not even a moderate. He was a pragmatic politician. He loved politics.
I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.
I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.
I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what's left of the world. That's such a sacred circle to be in. I'd love to contribute to that.
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.
In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us.
Putin wants nothing less than to return Russia to the center of global politics by challenging the primacy that the United States has enjoyed since the end of the Cold War.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
The single-payer Medicare for All proposal is not only bad policy, but it's bad politics. It's bad politics for a very simple reason: More than half the country has private insurance and most of them like it.
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
