Politics Quotes

You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.

For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.

...to befoul the unholy alliance between corrupt business and corrupt politics is the first task of the statesmanship of the day.

Well, it looks as if the top part fell on the bottom part.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

There is no private domain of a person's life that is not political, and there is no political issue that is not ultimately personal.

What are the politics of boredom?

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

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.

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

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding, and wielding power.

Liberty is the breath of progress.

I don't get into politics. I know [Donald] Trump, but I don't follow that. That's just an aside for him when he has nothing else to say. He never involved me in any of that stuff.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

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.

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

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

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.

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

I don't get into politics, general or musical, but just call me if you get jury duty. Even in New Jersey I was able to help somebody.

Politics is a contact sport.

I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.

A work of morality, politics, criticism will be more elegant, other things being equal, if it is shaped by the hand of geometry.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

Politics itself is so unsexy, isn't it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored - not used as a vehicle - the results can be really interesting.

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.