Politics Quotes

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.

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

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

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

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

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

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

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.

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

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.

Art and politics have many things in common.

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

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

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

I completely agree when there are actors who say, "Actors should stay out of politics. We're not politicians."

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Political success is the ability, when the inevitable occurs, to get credit for it.

The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale.

There is no cause so good or noble that it will not attract fuggheads; and the fuggheads will get all the press.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

It is my experience that the best way to deal with American politics is 50 milligrams of Zoloft 3 times a day.

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

In politics practically everything you hear is scandal, and besides, the funny thing is that the things they are whispering ain't half has bad as the things they have been saying right out loud.

But lies were what people wanted; that was politics.

Common sense is not an issue in politics--it's an affliction.

It was a storm in a tea cup, but in politics we sail in paper boats.

Every time we have an election, we get in worse men and the country keeps right on going. Times have proven only one thing and that is you can't ruin this country even with politics.

There is only one redeeming thing about this whole election. It will be over at sundown, and let everybody pray that it's not a tie, for we couldn't go through with this thing again.

We were idealists. We thought that when we got the vote the whole pattern of politics would be greatly improved and would be dominated by women.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.

I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

Feminism catches fire when it draws upon its inherent spirituality. When it does not, it is just one more form of politics, and politics never fed our deepest hungers.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

One of the most dangerous things about Fox News isn't that it's right wing but that it's nihilistic. It takes away the capacity to believe in politics.

I am quite sensitive to politics, because you know, as an Arab, an Iraqi, all your life, you are very conscious of it.

The Highways of America are built chiefly of politics, whereas the proper material is crushed rock or concrete.

The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it.

I have been long a sleeper; but I trust My absence doth neglect no great design Which by my presence might have been concluded.

Woe to that land that's governed by a child.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.