Politics Quotes

This country has far more problems than it deserves and far more solutions than it applies.

Politics isn't what defines a person, and it shouldn't define a relationship. I made the mistake of letting that intrude on my relationships.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

I'm not very active politically. The causes I work on offer immediate, practical, accessible help, and politics has never meant that to me

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

I suffer from the curse of being multi-talented. There's no doubt about it. Politics and literature have gotten in the way of songwriting.

Aristocracy and exclusiveness tend to final overthrow, in language as in politics.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

It's getting so if a man wants to stand well socially, he can't afford to be seen with either the Democrats or the Republicans.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

I do not admire politicians; but when they are excellent in their way, one cannot help allowing them their due.

Unequal group rights, the politics of redistribution and a Constitution whose meaning varies with changeable coalitions are a recipe for civil war.

You cannot adopt politics as a profession and remain honest.

Unlike presidential administrations, problems rarely have terminal dates.

[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

War is the enemy of all mankind.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

I take politics only medicinally, as a cure of occasional attacks of insomnia.

Congress knew Coolidge would veto the farm bill. There was more politics than relief in that bill.

I do politics in order to do policy.

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

I don't see politics as one or two people just making or delivering announcements - it's also about winning public support and the public enthusiasm. You've got to win public support.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

If this depression stays with us, the loser Tuesday is going to be the winner.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

The Senate just sits and waits till they find out what the president wants, so they know how to vote against him.

I think politics come out of psychology.

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Personally, I feel that it is the most contemptible thing for a politician to seek personal gains from politics.

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.

What do the nationalists say about killers punishing murderers and thieves sentencing looters?

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

I'm not a big politics guy.