Neil deGrasse Tyson Quotes

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Politics is a great art. It succeeds at convincing the people that they have to pay for what has been stolen from them.

Politics is power, and communications is power,

Politics is all a matter of timing.

I don't play politics.

Look, the people will elect the government they think best.

Political shenanigans come and go, yet often what feels like a big deal in Westminster fails to get a mention on the news. As a result, the public wisely let most of the hurly-burly of politics wash over their heads.

Pre-poll and exit polls have now become a commercial proposition. No longer are they viewed as means for a debate or means for enriching the voters and improving the quality of political campaigns. They have become yet another way of manipulation.

Because the referendum in 2016 wasn't just about our relationship with the E.U., it was about millions of people and their relationship with politics as a whole.

Look at it from [Vladimir] Putin's perspective, right. He's a trained intelligence officer, worked for the KGB, very talented, manipulated people much smarter than Donald Trump. He played this perfectly, right. He saw that Donald Trump wanted to be complimented.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

We created a new democratic Croatia, ... The HDZ is the strongest party in Croatia, and it achieved this not because of us politicians but because of you, the people of Croatia.

History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power.

Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.

power can be thought of as the never-ending, self-feeding motor of all political action that corresponds to the legendary unending accumulation of money that begets money.

We happen to live in an era that is incredibly wrapped up in notions of political correctness; everything is seen through the lens of politics. But being political and politically correct is just another way of fighting, another form of power and strategy, an insidious means of manipulation.

The point is that in any country, including the United States, may be in the United States even more often than in any other country, foreign policy is used for internal political struggle.

I know there's an online petition to have another referendum [like Brexit] but I think honestly I think if people want to go for it a little further down the line it would be a hiding for nothing.

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.

Because I'm a democrat! The will of the people is sovereign.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Donald Trump always takes care of Donald and people like Donald.

People feel the deck is being totally stacked against them, and the Democrats have various things in their playbook to go after opponents; taxes is one of them.