“When politicians deny anything fiercely, there is a good chance that it will happen.” HappensPoliticsChancePoliticianDenyGood Chance Author:Semir Zeki
“More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.” HappensPoliticalPoliticsAccidentsConspiracyExhaustion Author:Jeff Greenfield
“These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.” HappensPoliticsChanceLuckAffairPublic Affairs Author:Calvin Coolidge
“I just am a believer...that there are some things that happen for a reason...We may not be able to really discern it now...[but] given the perspective of time, I think we're going to be able to look back at this, and what seemed really bad at the time may turn out to be really good.” ThinkingLooksMayReasonHappensAbleTurnsPoliticsGivenPartyDemocracyPerspectiveBelieverIdeologyTeaTea PartyHappens For A Reason Author:Eric Cantor
“Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.” ProblemRealityHappensLyingPoliticsCommunityMoneyClassDemocracyPolicyWallTaxesCapitalismTradePropertyHuman RightsIdeologyJailFree SpeechConsumerismFacadePartisanship Author:Cecily McMillan
“I confess to feeling continued ambivalence about political life, aware of its shortcomings and disappointments, but drawn back to it again and again because of its infinite promise. Justice can triumph, wrongs can be righted, and pain can be alleviated, if the right fix is found. The optimistic illusion that one can change the world is difficult to resist, especially when from time to time that illusion is sustained by even a hint of reality. Change does happen in the political process.” IfsWorldDoeFeelingsRealityHappensPainPoliticalFoundPoliticsProcessDifficultJusticePromiseIllusionInfiniteDisappointmentOptimisticTriumphChanging The WorldAgain And AgainHintsShortcomingsPolitical LifeAmbivalence Author:Madeleine M. Kunin
“There is not a more prudent maxim, than to live with one's enemies as if they may one day become one's friends; as it commonly happens, sooner or later, in the vicissitudes of political affairs.” IfsMayHappensPoliticalPoliticsEnemyOne DayAffairSooner Or LaterMaximsPrudentVicissitudes Author:Lord Chesterfield
“I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic.” HappensPoliticalPoliticsPresidentPartyCatholicDemocraticCandidatesDemocratic PartyHymns Author:John F. Kennedy