Politics Quotes

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

Conventional names define a person's past: ancestry, ethnicity, nationality, religion. I am not who I was ten years ago and certainly not who I will be in twenty years

Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.

The distemper of which, as a community, we are sick, should be considered rather as a moral than a political malady.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

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.

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.

Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

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.

The Church is larger than any one nation or any one political scene.

We must not be anything other than what we are.

The Pentagon still has not given a name to the Iraqi war. Somehow 'Operation Re-elect Bush' doesn't seem to be popular.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver.

Political parties serve to keep each other in check, one keenly watching the other.

One of the reasons I came into politics was because I thought I lacked the skills to be a social worker.

Art and politics have many things in common.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Nothing mortal is so unstable and subject to change as power which has no foundation.

It may be that a more subtle person would find for this thing a reason of greater subtlety: but such is the reason that I find, and that liketh me best.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

We are the things and shapes to come, your freedom's not free of dumb.

[Gore] tended to drone on and on, in singsong, narcotizing cadences best endured by the heavily caffeinated.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

There ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and me, and we just disagree.

The agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

I've always wanted to do more significant stuff. I think of myself as well-informed, but the hardest thing to do is talk about politics and current events and be funny and not just preachy.

Extremism means borders beyond which life ends, and a passion for extremism, in art and in politics, is a veiled longing for death.

A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

Controversial proposals, once accepted, soon become hallowed.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

I say one evil empire down...one to go.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

When it becomes dominated by a collectivist creed, democracy will inevitably destroy itself.

When will government cease being a nuisance to everybody?

Protection and patriotism are reciprocal.

Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.

Liberals and conservatives are opponents in the most literal sense, each using the myth of pure evil to demonize the other side and unite there own.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy.

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Politics: a Trojan horse race.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.