Eric Alterman Quotes

Never you mind about the country, or about the state, or the city, or about the ward. You take care of your precinct.

All politics is local.

Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.

I have chosen to seek election to the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors and not reelection to Congress.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities.

It is simply the truth that the political system that I am part of has degenerated to the point that it needs fundamental change.

It is unfortunate that people believe that in order to democratise something you have to get politicians out of the system.

I am the only Republican Congressman who represents a borough within New York City, a city of 8.5 million people.

I'm not searching for ways to tell the District of Columbia what to do.

If you think the system - not you - but if your viewers think that the current political system is working well and serving the interest of our country, then what we're doing will not be attractive.

If I was a politician right now I would change just about everything.

They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

I am elected by the people of Bucharest, not the dogs.

Politicians are a lot like diapers. They should be changed frequently and for the same reason.

In the early period of American History the office sought the man. Today various kinds of people seek the office.

I am a Virginian, so naturally I am a politician.

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're going to get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

I believe in the two party system nationally, but not for large cities like New York.

With much care and skill power has been broken into fragments in the American township, so that the maximum possible number of people have some concern with public affairs.

Free and fair elections does not mean democracy.

We need to reform the political system, or we'll lose the democracy. I don't think it's that hard. It doesn't take rocket science. We've done it before successfully at the presidential level and tried it several places at the state level.

I would consider running for office. But not for mayor.

I am not interested in state politics.