I hate conservatives, but I really hate liberals.
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
Politics consists wholly of a succession of unintelligent crazes, many of them so idiotic that they exist only as battle-cries and shibboleths and are not reducible to logical statement at all.
The New Deal exists principally on an emotional plane for Obama. To him, the New Deal is something you play like a song, to make you or your constituents feel better.
The world view of the underdog socialist is encapsulated in the notion that the establishment has mastered the game of reason, judgment and statistics, leaving the left with emotion. Its heart is in the right place.
Gratitude is not an active sentiment in politics.
Hate, emotionalism, and frustration are not policies.
It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
Rather than do his job and agree to take responsible measures to get our government's finances in order, President Obama continues playing on the emotions and fears of the American people.
Treating politics like a religion also makes it more emotionally volatile, more tribal (because differences of opinion become matters of good and evil) and more prone to outbreaks of moralizing and piety.
I don't think the American people, if you look historically, elect angry candidates.
Quebec has no opinions, only emotions.
I think that Donald Trump picked on people's fears, their anxieties and he gave them somebody to blame, and some folks just really turned out for him for that.
We've seen with Brexit and other things that there's a dark impulse to be petulant and frustrated with complicated solutions.
It doesn't really matter what policy you're for, so long ease gets your gut-level anger about whatever. So, you can't attack Donald Trump on policy.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.
I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.
The problem with us EU politicians is that we approach everything with cool rationality, and then wonder why we don't win people over emotionally.
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
The most dangerous animal is the man with emotion who wants to pass a new law.
There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.
Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments.
