Politics Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Men and women are different, but if women are good enough to run homes and raise children, then their influence ought to be good for politics.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

I just keep trying to explain what's going on with our planet - and now, to explain what's going on with our politics, which explains why we're not doing anything about the former.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I want to be Robin to Bush's Batman.

My only politics have been friendship.

Left vs. Right is an out-dated concept and an oversimplification of 21st Century politics

Politics has become entertainment.

The social side of Washington was to be taken for granted as three-fourths of existence. Politics and reform became the detail, and waltzing the profession

Osama bin Laden is dead, and General Motors is alive.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

Just make music; don't talk about politics.

Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

Statesman create; ordinary leaders consume. The ordinary leader is satisfied with ameliorating the environment, not transforming it; a statesman must be a visionary and an educator.

If it's going to come out eventually, better have it come out immediately.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

I'm a powerful S.O.B., you know that?

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.

Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

No one is to blame for the breakdown in trust between politics, media and the public.

Even a little dog can piss on a big building.

Making mistakes is how you learn.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

Some of the jam we thought was for tomorrow, we've already eaten

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.

Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue.

I despise politics. There is no room for it in a company. My life is going to be way too short to deal with that.