Politics Quotes

My voice is for hire. My endorsement is not for hire. I will do a voice-over, but I cannot endorse without making a different kind of commitment. My politics are very personal and subjective.

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

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.

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 really like to infuse music with politics - but I wouldn't say as a general statement that it shouldn't be.

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

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

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.

I am an apolitical Prime Minister. Apart from elections, I don't get involved into politics ever.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Business is business and politics is politics and never between shall meet.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?

All normal life, Peter, consciously or otherwise, resent domination. If the domination is by an inferior, or by a supposed inferior, the resentment becomes stronger.

Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Rights are not easy to obtain, and once we understand this, we must work attentively and persistently - and never become careless or lazy.

Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.

If there is a smoke, there is a fire, the saying goes, That is quite true, but one should find what the fire is, and who lit it.

[Government] regulation is an imperfect substitute for the accountability, and trust, built into a market in which food producers meet the gaze of eaters and vice versa.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

What better way for a ruling class to claim and hold power than to pose as the defenders of the nation.

we ask for too much salvation by legislation. All we need to do is empower individuals with the right philosophy and the right information to opt out en masse. (quoting Joel Salatin)

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

He's the President—it's the responsibility of every citizen to criticize aggressively when they think it's warranted.

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

Indeed, it's futile to try and use Holy Scripture to support any political position. I deeply distrust anyone who does. Just look at what an Islamic Republic is like.

Right now, the economy is a whole lot like a fairly good-looking brain-dead chick in a persistent vegetative coma. You can't really wake her up, but there's things she's still good for.

It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

If crimes are committed they must be seen as a disease, and punishment as treatment rather than as social vengeance.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Congress should not be like the Super Bowl where you have to have one team that's going to win and another team that's going to be a loser.

The internet brought many laudable things, but prosperity, stability, accountability and honest politics were not four of them.

Old politicians chew on wisdom past, And totter on in business to the last.

...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely.

Anyone who says he won't resign four times, will.

The economic answer to the world's problems is John Adams, not [Karl] Marx.

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

If somebody's gonna stab me in the back, I wanna be there.

Information upon points of practical politics.

Freedom to rock, freedom to talk. Freedom, raise your fist and yell.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.