Politics Quotes

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.

You will in due season find your property is less valuable, and your freedom less complete.

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

Our changing climate has changed our politics.

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.

[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.

This strategy represents our policy for all time. Until it's changed.

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.

Politics is history in the present tense.

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

The new political gospel: public office is private graft.

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

Let me tell you how it will be. There's one for you, nineteen for me. Cause I'm the taxman.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.

Well, it would have to be “The Man Who Was Thursday.” It’s a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

As a historian, he felt it his duty to respect everything that had ever been respected, except for the occasional statesman.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

America is great, because America is free.

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.

The President is going to benefit from me reporting directly to him when I arrive.

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

Power naturally and necessarily follows property.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.