Politics Culture Quotes

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

The White House is another world. Expediency is everything.

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.

Washington [DC] is a zero sum place.

[Washington is a] very gossipy little village of people all going to the same bars . . . all watching each other having affairs with each other

I'm not a creature of Washington.

I have a message for any young woman who is thinking about running for office and has ever attended a costume party… or done anything stupid on camera. Run for office. Fight for this country.

In Washington, D.C., they don't do real work.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Parties are not built by deportment.

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

One thing I regret about American politics is that no one seems to have a sense of humor any more.

You know the bark is worse than the bite in D.C.

People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?

The Daily Show is one of the lowest-rated shows in the state of Alabama, so we decided to reach across the aisle and do a collection of field pieces about Alabama - to increase awareness of the show there, but also to learn about the politics, culture, and religion in Alabama.

There's discussion in athletics about how sport - where they say 'SportsCenter' has ruined the fundamentals of basketball because it's - it only applauds dunks and three point shots and blocks, and I think, you know, the cable news has done the same thing for politics.

Washington is a city that coddles up to and worships power.