Politics Quotes

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.

By repetition, each lie becomes an irreversible fact upon which other lies are constructed.

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

Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

If you lead, you will eventually serve with Judas or Peter.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

The time has come to knock off this religion business in American politics. There's no end to the mischief that can occur. It is like putting nitroglycerine in a Waring blender.

Great obstacles make great leaders.

The only motive that can keep politics pure is the motive of doing good for one's country and its people.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

.......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

Only fanatics — in religion as well as in politics — can find a meaning in someone else’s death.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians.

Neutrality is not politics.

Climate action is central for the future of our planet.

My country tis of thee, to take swings at each other on talk show TV.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

My fans get enough politics on TV every day. I want them to think for themselves. I don't want them to listen to me.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

The longer a politician bears power, the more he is controlled by that power.

The so-called Real World. Human misery and sadness. Blind politics and general cruelty.

There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you dont reflect the entire world around you, then youre leaving something out.

In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line.

I would not have married Dan Quayle had I not thought he was an equal to me.

I didn't know whether to duck or to run, so I ran.

Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

Our politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.

Good economics is good politics.

Poetry is my politics. It's an opportunity that gives me a way to speak.

Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.

The most common and durable source of faction has been the various and unequal distribution of property.

Experience has already shown that the impeachment the Constitution has provided is not even a scarecrow.

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

American labor will realize that its function is not to increase jobs, but to multiply the wealth and to expand the numbers benefited by the wealth at the swiftest possible rate.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society.

Half of us is easy, the other half is hard. Even though we do our best, we end up being scarred.