Politics Quotes

I've never professed to be anything but an average student.

The strength of the Democratic Party of Cook County is not something that just happened.

In George Bush you get experience, and with me you get the future.

If a due participation of office is a matter of right, how are vacancies to be obtained? Those by death are few; by resignation, none.

We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

When you're out of office, you can be a statesman.

Noble causes have a deplorable effect on the morals of the persons who espouse them.

I heard Dennis Kucinich say in a debate, 'When I'm president... and I just wanted to stop him and say, 'Dude.'

The right to be a journalist is part of the Bill of Rights.

How different the new order would be if we could consult the veteran instead of the politician.

Most people in politics draw energy from backslapping and shaking hands and all that. I draw energy from discussing ideas.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Whether in families or in politics, a good observation: "One can disagree without being disagreeable."

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicisation of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanisation of politics.

A politician would do well to remember that he has to live with his conscience longer than he does with his constituents.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

I won't say that the papers misquote me, but I sometimes wonder where Christianity would be today if some of those reporters had been Matthew, Mark, Luke and John.

There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Most of us are honest all the time, and all of us are honest most of the time.

A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

I'm hoping that we're not getting to Second Amendment remedies. I hope the vote will be the cure for the Harry Reid problems.

Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

I think few people of education enter politics because it seems like a contact blood sport.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

I am not a fan of politics.

I am a Tory anarchist. I should like everyone to go about doing just as he pleased - short of altering any of the things to which I have grown accustomed.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

The personal is political.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory.

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meanness for the public good.

Party is organized opinion.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to the perpetuation of society itself.

Effective communication is built on the cement of trust. And trust is based on trustworthiness, not politics.

The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favours.

There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so.

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.