Politics Quotes by Christopher Hitchens

“The whole point about corruption in politics is that it can't be done, or done properly, without a bipartisan consensus.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Beware of identity politics. I'll rephrase that: have nothing to do with identity politics.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“Control over the production and distribution of oil is the decisive factor in defining who rules whom in the Middle East.”

— Christopher Hitchens

You don't say 'they all do it' unless you know you've been doing it too.

— Christopher Hitchens

“Bad as political fiction can be, there is always a politician prepared to make it look artistic by comparison.”

— Christopher Hitchens

“The only people truly bound by campaign promises are the voters who believe them.”

— Christopher Hitchens

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I used to call myself a single-issue voter on the essential question of defending civilization against its terrorist enemies and their totalitarian…

— Christopher Hitchens

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing"…

— Christopher Hitchens

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of…

— Christopher Hitchens

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It…

— Christopher Hitchens

“...to experience a furious disillusionment with ‘conventional’ politics, a bit young to be so cynical and so superior, you may think. My…

— Christopher Hitchens

If I'm in a political argument, I think I can, with reasonable accuracy and without boasting, put the other person's side of…

— Christopher Hitchens

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

— Christopher Hitchens

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the…

— Christopher Hitchens

It would have been very alarming - morally, and in other ways too - if an attack of that nature, the 11…

— Christopher Hitchens

“I shall not vote for Sen. Obama and it will not be because he—like me and like all of us—carries African genes.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes…

— Christopher Hitchens

[Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Periclean Greeks employed the term idiotis , without any connotation of stupidity or subnormality, to mean simply 'a person indifferent to public…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Indifferent to truth, willing to use police-state tactics and vulgar libels against inconvenient witnesses, hopeless on health care, and flippant and fast…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Those of us who follow politics seriously rather than view it as a game show do not look at Hillary Clinton and…

— Christopher Hitchens

There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Many governments employ torture but this was the first time that the element of Saturnalia and pornography in the process had been…

— Christopher Hitchens

“One also hears a great deal about how this awful joint tenure of the executive mansion was a good thing in that…

— Christopher Hitchens

“It was sometimes feebly argued, as the political and military war against this enemy ran into difficulties, that it was 'a war…

— Christopher Hitchens

“During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his…

— Christopher Hitchens

“This is what you get when you found a political system on the family values of Henry VIII. At a point in…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Some readers may have noticed an icy little missive from Noam Chomsky ["Letters," December 3], repudiating the very idea that he and…

— Christopher Hitchens

“During the Bosnian war in the late 1990s, I spent several days traveling around the country with Susan Sontag and her son,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Question: Which Mediterranean government shares all of Ronald Reagan's views on international terrorism, the present danger of Soviet advance, the hypocrisy of…

— Christopher Hitchens

“For all its outwardly easy Latin charm, Buenos Aires was making me feel sick and upset, so I did take that trip…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Pettiness often leads both to error and to the digging of a trap for oneself. Wondering (which I am sure he didn't)…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The North Korean capital, Pyongyang, is a city consecrated to the worship of a father-son dynasty. (I came to think of them,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Very often the test of one's allegiance to a cause or to a people is precisely the willingness to stay the course…

— Christopher Hitchens

“The neo-cons, or some of them, decided that they would back Clinton when he belatedly decided for Bosnia and Kosovo against Milosevic,…

— Christopher Hitchens

“At least two important conservative thinkers, Ayn Rand and Leo Strauss, were unbelievers or nonbelievers and in any case contemptuous of Christianity.…

— Christopher Hitchens

“Seeing the name Hillary in a headline last week—a headline about a life that had involved real achievement—I felt a mouse stirring…

— Christopher Hitchens

“1. Bangladesh… In 1971 ... Kissinger overrode all advice in order to support the Pakistani generals in both their civilian massacre policy…

— Christopher Hitchens