Politics Quotes
In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.
The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects, forbids it in the dispensation of the public moneys.
As long as politics is the shadow cast on society by big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.
The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.
For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together.
Your mom was right when she told you never to discuss politics and religion because emotions run so high in those arenas. Especially religion.
The dictatorship of the Communist Party is maintained by recourse to every form of violence.
You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.
David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.
Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.
The academic community has in it the biggest concentration of alarmists, cranks and extremists this side of the giggle house.
It is fortunate that diplomats have long noses since they usually cannot see beyond them.
In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.
What do I bring to the Democratic National Convention that other reporters don't? Hair.
I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.
Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.
Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.
There's a couple things you don't talk about in life, and that's race, religion and politics. I try to make sure I don't talk about politics at all.
People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.
Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.
I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
Politics is when people choose their words and actions based on how they want others to react rather than based on what they really think.
Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me
Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.