Politics Quotes

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

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

I'm sorry I ever invented the Electoral College.

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

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

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

Politics, glamor, fame - they're all mixed up together, and they always have been.

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

Take back your insurance, baby, nothing is guaranteed. Take back your acid rain, let your TV bleed.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government.

Everyone must act according to the dictates of his own reason.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

One legged veterans will greet the dawn, and they're whistling marches as they mow the lawn, and the gargoyles on sit and grieve.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

In America the press rules the countrty; it rules its politics, its religion, its social practices.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

Politics is the art of achieving prestige and power without merit.

I know Reverend Jesse Jackson is controversial, and not a popular figure with many, but he hired me in 1984. He gave me my first job in politics.

I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

You have to have a sense of humor if you follow politics. Otherwise, the sheer fraudulence of it all will get you down.

That's one of the good things about being from the political centre, you're willing to work with both side of politics.

France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics.

Nobody living average, everybody jang-a-lang. Nobody living savage, everybody got change.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

The government bugged the men's room in the local disco lounge.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

It is morally, politically and socially wrong for business as business or labor as labor to participate directly in politics.

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

Passions change, politics are immutable.

A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

In fact, the likeliest reason why so many of us care so little about politics is that modern politicians makes us sad, hurt us deep down in ways that are hard even to name, much less talk about.

When you get to No 10, you've climbed there on a little ladder called 'the status quo'. And when you are there, the status quo looks very good

I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby.

Everything about my politics has been about the future.

Gratitude is not a normal feature of political life.

If Colin Powell was president, I'd follow him. I wanna get into politics. That's the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.

Not even Sen. [Joseph] McCarthy was able to repress ideas he opposed as effectively as Harvard's hiring committees have suppressed the conservative viewpoints they despise and fear.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

Trust not too much to appearances