Politics Quotes

....it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.

Even the Lord had skeptical members of his party.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows.

Indeed, in US politics, 'poverty', along with 'welfare', 'unwed mothers' and 'crime', became code words for blacks.

You can't just talk politics all the time - it's boring.

Scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans has as much dignity as the Presidency.

Sometimes people just don't understand the way that I work in politics.

Accusing a home school kid of missing out on ‘socialization’ is like accusing a work-at-home entrepreneur of missing out on corporate politics.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

It's time that we move from good words to good works, from sound bites to sound solutions.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

I'll work every day to try to make Washington, D.C., as inconsequential in your life as I can.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

Poor George [Bush], he can't help it. He was born with a silver foot in his mouth.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

There are few ironclad rules of diplomacy but to one there is no exception. When an official reports that talks were useful, it can safely be concluded that nothing was accomplished.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

No church that panders to the zeitgeist deserves respect, and very shortly it will not get respect, except from those who find it politically useful, and that is less respect than disguised contempt.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

I do not love the money. What I do love is the getting of it ... What other interest can you suggest to me? I do not read. I do not take part in politics. What can I do?

Gnostic politics is self-defeating in so far as its disregard for the structure of reality leads to continuous warfare.

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

I'm coming from journalism, but at the same time I'm tempted by poetry, politics, and maybe the idea of being a witness, a belief that you can still change things with the image.

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

Politics, like religion, hold up the torches of martyrdom to the reformers of error.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!

A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.

The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.

The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.

The best form of government is one that is dying, because that means it’s giving way to something else.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy.

Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.

If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in nothing and having worthless dreams.