Politics Quote by Barack Obama

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat…

— Barack Obama

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

— Peter Wilson

Our philosophy is we call it as we see it. Sometimes you agree, sometimes you don't. Robust debate is good.

— Bill O'Reilly

We can never allow people who use nondemocratic means, people who use violence instead of arguments, people who use knives instead of debates, we…

— Geert Wilders

“Our civic life is heavily marked—indeed, pocked—by debates in which each side is so certain of its position that any movement is effectively impossible.…

— Leah Hager Cohen

Political debate with liberals is basically impossible in America today because liberals are calling names while conservatives are trying to make arguments.

— Ann Coulter

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

— Michael Wolff

Political debates in the United States can be untethered from facts, but threats to life focus minds on reality.

— Tom Malinowski

The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.

— Leo Strauss

I do not believe that any political campaign justifies the declaration of a moratorium on ordinary common sense.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

You can't have a motion without a debate.

— Hugh Dalton

A common rhetorical strategy of politicians and others is to frame their opponents' views in the worst possible light, tacitly suggesting that all versions…

— Dale Jamieson