Politics Quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

An informed patriotism is what we want.

[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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Al Gore couldn't be more phony if he were a professional Al Gore impersonator

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

In politics, nothing moves unless it's pushed.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

I would feel a little awkward because of my connection with politics.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

Which is stronger, politics or love? is like asking, Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling? They are two sides of the same thing.

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

I'm an idealist without illusions.

Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

Many a man has been dined out of his religion, and his politics, and his manhood, almost.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.