Politics Quotes

Why should insurance companies continue to get away with limiting the skills that a health profession has always previously required of its members if they were to be considered fully trained?

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

It appears history is going to keep happening, despite our hopes for retirement.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

I don't like the new president who hunts muslim extremists, I like the old president who is a muslim extremist.

People say you can't make movies about your politics or the environment. And, generally speaking, I completely divide those sides of my brain.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

A liberal is a man who leaves the room before the fight starts.

When we encounter suffering, it is important to respond w/ compassion rather than to question the politics of those we help.

Country comes before politics.

I'm cynical about society, politics, newspapers, government. But I'm not cynical about life, love, goodness, death. That's why I really don't want to be labeled a cynic.

Distracting a politician from governing is like distracting a bear from eating your baby.

Culture and politics were inseparable [in the Sixties], which gave a soundtrack to political awareness and activism.

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing.

Politics is a fascinating game, because politics is government. It is the art of government.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

What chance of survival does a culture have when its own elites actively seek its destruction?

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

The killer bees have gone, like rats deserting the Titanic.

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.

The media is Obama's scandal condom.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

A politician... one that would circumvent God.

It gave dirty politics a bad name.

Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce.

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics.

I am not a reluctant peer but a persistent commoner

Life means nothing to you, at least that's what they say. But it doesn't mean that you have the right to take life away.

I now want more time to devote to politics and more freedom to do so.

Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.

I don't think that modesty is the outstanding characteristic of contemporary politics, do you?

The crisis that we inherit when we come to power will be the occasion for fundamental change and not the excuse for postponing it

To me party platforms are contracts with the people.

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.

Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

Money honey, if you want to get along with me.

There's a tendency, especially among academics, to see politics as deeply dirty and deeply egotistical.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

All men can understand what representation is; and that it must necessarily include a variety of knowledge and talents.