you don’t get far in political discourse with…

It's fine to talk about politics with people you agree with. But it is rude to argue about politics with people you disagree with.…

— Lawrence Lessig

It's important that people understand who I am and where I come from and not just have it shaped by purely political discourse.

— Justin Trudeau

I've watched politics for years. Republicans rarely get credit for the good things that happen in the economy during their watch. Democrats always get…

— George W. Bush

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

— Joseph Brodsky

If you listen to the political discourse in America today, you would think that all our problems have been caused by the Mexicans of…

— Fareed Zakaria

Virtually all political discourse in the days of my youth was devoted to the ferreting out of hypocrisy... Because they were hypocrites, the Victorians…

— Neal Stephenson

The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where…

— Richard Lindzen

Americans should not have to wonder if their government is actively looking to subvert them or their political views. We live in a nation…

— Mike Turner

The reduction of political discourse to sound bites is one of the worst things that's happened in American political life.

— John Silber

When I was younger, I used to be very impatient with anyone who wasn't doing overtly political work. I've since come to feel that…

— Tony Kushner

I feel like musicians have such a precarious place in the political discourse, because musicians are, sort of just by nature, people-pleasers.

— John Flansburgh

I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered.

— George Allen

I've become very interested in the spectrum of political discourse as seen on the cable news channels that are conveniently right in a row…

— Chris Carter

Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse…

— Mike O'Malley

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

— Zephyr Teachout