Politics Quotes

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

War is merely a continuation of politics.

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

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

The hope is there. The sun is rising. Our best days are yet to come.

In poltitics you get what you deserve rather than what you want.

We ought to be more focused on enemies without than preoccupied with finding them within.

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

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

Information upon points of practical politics.

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

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Politics are a labyrinth without a clue.

I think it was Columbia politics, Columbia Records politics that, that, Tom Wilson left [Bob Dylan] after "Like A Rolling Stone".

politics ... is the hottest, most dangerous subject in the land. It's not only a conversation-wrecker, it's a friendship-wrecker, a family-wrecker, a job-wrecker, a future-wrecker.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

Socially, a journalist ranks somewhere between the madam of a whorehouse and a bartender. but spiritually he ranks with Galileo, for he knows the world is round.

Politics does not end the day of the election.

There's one thing that I've liked over the years when I've promoted bodybuilding and fitness and my movies and politics and issues and so on is to stay focused.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

I have nothing to do with politics. I came here [Yugoslavia] to play chess and nothing else.

I am neither a Whig nor Tory. My politics are described in one word and that word is England.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President.

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

There's a huge difference in the attitude of the people of the United States of America toward women in politics. It has taken an enormous turn toward equality.

Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

They wouldn't be politicians if they knew what they were doing.

I'm a politician, and as a politician I have the prerogative to lie whenever I want.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting.

You cannot understand the politics of today without understanding the Civil Rights Movement and the role it played in our society.

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

Let's never forget what made us great as a nation. It's not diversity, it's liberty.

I guess I wish we could talk about: what does it mean to have a politics of intersectionality that also privileges what form of domination is most oppressing us at a given moment in time.

If you begin by saying, 'Thou shalt not lie,' there is no longer any possibility of political action.

So it is clear that the search for what is just is a search for the mean; for the law is the mean.

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.

It seems that in the world of politics, lying is not such a big deal.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.