Jack Bonner Quotes

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

According to the people who dearly would love to throw him out of office, Barack Obama was elected to be 'above politics.' He wasn't elected to be president, after all. He was elected as an avatar of American tolerance. His attempts to get himself reelected imply a certain, well, ingratitude.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

The dominant color of politics is gray; difficult choices and compromise are required at almost every step of the journey toward a major new program.

Politics is a matter of communications.

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.

It is impossible to take politics out of politics.

Politics begins when you have two people in a room or when you have one person looking in a mirror.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

Don’t you realize there’s an election this year. This is a social revolution that we’re considering here. And if we decide it in an election year, the two candidates will chose up sides on it, neither one will read the decision of course, and it will be thrown into the political scramble. Is this the way you want this important question to be decided?

The political tendencies of the various social classes are based on a correct practical instinct.

There is nothing that is not political.

In politics, good gets better; bad gets worse.

We are becoming too much of a gaff-centric political culture.

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Bigger Than His Party.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Perhaps the reason Trump voters are so frequently the subject of caricature is that they so frequently conform to type.

I'm passionate about politics, but when it comes to political parties, I'm despondent. I'm disappointed at the absence of a sense of humanity and struggle to not become a cynic.

Political culture has become popular culture.

Perceptions are essential in politics.

I get asked that almost every day, but I've been saying the same thing... I'm not going to take any more stupid questions about Donald Trump. It's not what I focus on every day.

If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'