Politics Quotes
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
I have a job to do. ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.
Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.
If nominated by either party, I should peremptorily decline, and even if unanimously elected, I should decline to serve.
There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent. If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics.
Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful.
America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Too often it's not the most creative guys or the smartest. Instead, it's the ones who are best at playing politics and soft-soaping their bosses. Boards don't like tough, abrasive guys.
Individualism is a denial that life has any meaning except the gratification of the ego; in politics it must end in anarchy. It is not possible for one man to be both Christian and Individualist.
I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.
Feminazis have adopted abortion as a kind of sacrament for their religion/politics of alienation and bitterness.
It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
It is wrong to expect a reward for your struggles. The reward is the act of struggle itself, not what you win.
I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
That was my real education in the world - I learned politics, the social and cultural life of India, Hindu tradition and religion, and Buddhism.
And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.
The ideas and principles of democracy should not be limited to politics, but must pervade all areas of social life.
Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.
A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.
In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.
I was fifteen years old when I understood how it is that things break down: people can't imagine someone else's point of view.
The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.
The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.
The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.
National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.
The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.