Forward Quote by Pinarayi Vijayan

Yet in a society of conflicting interests the only democratic way in which matters can be improved is through politics, and politics means the…

— Gore Vidal

Party politics in modern democratic society means pandering to a wide variety of different groups and sympathizing with their often quite base motives, such…

— Randal Marlin

It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can…

— George Washington

Without the truth of the people, politics degenerates into mere spectacle and democracy declines, leaving demagoguery and cynicism to fill the void.

— Jerry Brown

Regardless of how people love to deride politicians, democracy is not an easy gig. My decisions, views and heartfelt principles are dismissed by so…

— Jess Phillips

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

— Eugene McCarthy

Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage…

— Bill Vaughan

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

— Tony Judt

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

I'm not an expert on politics, but there's a bunch of bad people at the top who care about lining their own pockets before…

— Sam Fender

Successful democratic politicians are insecure and intimidated men. They advance politically only as they placate, appease, bribe, seduce, bamboozle, or otherwise manage to manipulate…

— Walter Lippmann

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

— Paul Valery