Politics Quotes

Consultation is a good thing when people agree with you, and a waste of time when people don't agree with you

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible.

Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

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.

I had rather be right than be President.

I was just too stubborn to ever be governed by enforced insanity.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

I love hard political debate and I love beating somebody on a political point but what I'm more frustrated by is the politics where you play the man not the politics.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.

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

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

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

Politics is activity in relation to power

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

I love to see honest and honorable men at the helm, men who will not bend their politics to their purses, nor pursue measures by which they may profit, and then profit by their measures.

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude.

The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Sir, I shall not defeat you - I shall transcend you.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

I have the perfect simplified tax form for government. Why don't they just print our money with a return address on it?

Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies.

Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

I’m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.