Politics Quotes

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.

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.

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

Politics is a good thing!

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

Whenever you put a man on the Supreme Court he ceases to be your friend.

It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own particular ways of being happy, provided those ways do not assume to interfere by violence with ours.

I'm not creating art that starts with politics or starts with ethics. I feel I am a conceptual artist because my art is more concerned with epistemology than ethics or politics or even aesthetics.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

If we disagree and I think I'm right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, 'I told you so.'

If I am a great man, then all great men are frauds.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

I'd rather work with a grassroots organization than in politics. I'm not sure I'd be the best politician because I don't think I'm good about tactfully tiptoeing around questions in the right way.

For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support are the same.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

if newspapers were written by people whose sole object in writing was to tell the truth about politics and the truth about art we should not believe in war, and we should believe in art.

When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

It's me who is my enemy Me who beats me up Me who makes the monsters Me who strips my confidence.

The public is a ferocious beast; one must either chain it or flee from it.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

At home, you always have to be a politician; when you're abroad, you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.

In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics.

This party is a bit like an old stagecoach. If you drive along at a rapid rate everyone aboard is either so exhilarated or so seasick that you don't have a lot of difficulty.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

The problem with politics isn't the money; it's the power.

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Government is like a vast ocean and politics is the six-inch layer on top.

Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Surely nobody would be a charlatan, who could afford to be sincere.

A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.