Politics Quotes

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

We must recognize that we can't solve our problems now until there is a radical redistribution of economic and political power.... a radical restructuring of the architecture of American society.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

My politics are: I'm a trustbuster. Very focused. And yeah, I'm pro-efficiency. I want the most economic activity at the lowest price possible. It's good for everybody, it's not red or blue.

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

Our nation is well equipped to make the transition. We have an abundance of natural resources like wind, natural gas, solar and geothermal.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Pledge allegiance to the flag that neglects us.

The time will come when human intelligence will rise to the mastery of property.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too.

Action comes from keeping the heat on. No politician can sit on a hot issue if you make it hot enough.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

My walk had purpose, my steps were quick and light, and I held firmly to what I felt was right.

Being a conservative on campus is like bing a goat amongst the taliban. You are never safe.

Politics can be the graveyard of the poet. And only poetry can be his resurrection.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Those that deem politics beneath their dignity are doomed to be governed by those of lesser talents.

Jesus was the first socialist, the first to seek a better life for mankind.

The politics of courts are so mean that private people would be ashamed to act in the same way; all is trick and finesse, to which the common cause is sacrificed.

I'd rather have a German Division in front of me than a French one behind.

I am not a man who looks for solutions in God or politics. If somebody else wants to do the dirty work and create a better world for us and he can do it, I will accept it.

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam.

The future is female, so women are invited, as they do, to take responsability in the world of politics, in the economics, in art

If Clinton had only attacked terrorism as much as he attacks George Bush we wouldn't be in this problem.

We've seen a great deal of interest from the Occupy movement. It's a diverse movement, not everyone embraces electoral politics, and no one can speak for Occupy.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

I went to the UN and even the guidebook was spineless.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

I don't even want to go to the Pride marches anymore. The politics have been removed almost entirely. They're just huge corporate showcases.

Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.

It's easier to criticize somebody else, than to see yourself.

Whatever we say here today is not against any party or person. We are not here to do politics. I have not stood up here to save a government... we want swaraaj, the people's rule, in Delhi.

...Politics is not about facts. It is about what politicians can get people to believe.

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Art does not exist for politics, or for instruction- it exists primarily for pleasure, or it is nothing.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways - in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished

Socialism is a dead horse.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations.