Politics Quotes

When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious & charitable institutions may become, the music will still be wonderful.

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

I am a politician which means I am a liar and a crook. When I am not kissing babies I am stealing their lollypops.

In most of my campaigns, I find it is best not to mention my opponent by name because, by doing so, it just gives him a chance to get into the headlines.

Black people have always been used as a buffer in this country between powers to prevent class war.

Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

A new survey shows that the American public is more conservative now than at any point since 1952. The bad news is that all the liberals that died since then are still voting.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

Maybe we should raise our voices, ask somebody why. But demonstrations are a drag, besides we're much too high.

In elective politics, it's up or out. You go up the ladder, or you get out of the game.

Fear is the politicians dance partner.

Those who refuse to engage in politics will be led by their inferiors

They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

You're extending hospitality, and hospitality is a big part of how politics works.

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.

Those who can't teach - administrate. Those who can't administrate - go into politics.

Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

You kill three people, they call you a murderer. You kill a million people, they call you a conqueror. Go figure.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves.

There's no business that's too small for government to torture

The press lives on disaster.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

....for friendships that are acquired by a price and not by greatness and nobility of character are purchased but are not owned, and at the proper moment they cannot be spent.

In Islam religion and politics cannot be separated. Unlike other religions, Islam is political by its very nature.

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

I had rather be right than be President.

I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

To listen to some people in Politics, you'd think-nice-was a four-letter word.

Politics in a democratic society should not be treated like a baseball game, a game show or a soap opera. The times are too serious for that.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.

Cruelty is fed, not weakened, by tears.

Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world--but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

Economics and politics are the governing powers of life today, and that's why everything is so screwy.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

You can't understand Twenty-first-Century Politics with an Eighteenth-Century Brain.

Politics are not my concern.... They impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

Politics is a romantic search for the good and the true and the beautiful.