Politics Quotes

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

I'm always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects - one day politics, the next day foreign policy. And she always has so much fun doing it. We make a good team.

For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.

More than half the questions I am asked are about the politics of the way I look

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

Twenty million people are starving. Whatever their politics, they shall be fed!

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.

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

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

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

The best party is but a kind of conspiracy against the rest of the nation.

If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly.

We are seeing entertainment become politics and we're seeing people acting out in ways that are extremely violent and destabilizing. No rules apply. We're in an era of no rules now, it seems.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

There is no power without justice.

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Stop bothering me with your pathetic politics - I'd rather go to the whorehouse.

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to bind, imprison and destroy.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

If you don't turn on to politics, politics will turn on you.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

Economics dominates politics - and with that domination comes different forms of ruthlessness.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

...open-market democratic capitalism isn't the best system of government in the world, it just works the best.

I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

The only way you approach politics and seek elective office is to move forward. For me to look back in anger or with any rancor would be a mistake.

I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

There are no friends at cards or world politics

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

Book-publishing is all about politics. Agents, editors, which books will be puffed, which ignored, etc.

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its relation to practical politics.

I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.

They took your commandments off the schoolhouse walls, they say it's a crime to pray.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

You give up a lot to be in politics. And if you're not there to change the world I don't know what you're there for. I mean, it doesn't make any sense to me.