Politics Quotes

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Politics is mostly pill-taking.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

I have always said the first Whig was the Devil.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Until you know who has lent what to whom, you know nothing whatever of politics, you know nothing whatever of history, you know nothing of international wrangles.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession... and I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

How can a president not be an actor?

To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.

If our planes were shot down, yes, they's wake me right away. If the other fellows' were shot down, why wake me up?

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

These are the rules of big business...Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics.

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

If you would have the slave show the virtues of the freeman, you must first make him free.

I'm pretty transparent and very honest almost to a fault. I don't hide anything or sugarcoat anything. I don't play politics because that means I'd have to lie. I'm just forthright in my whole being.

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

There's a similarity in both being young people who are not about the politics of respectability.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Business is a useful tool in politics, but it's not enough. You need much more than to be a good businessman, to be a good politician.

For liberals, religion and politics mix as long as the results support their cause.

The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

If you really got the right people, and you've got them working together as a team, whether it's in business, whether it's in science, whether it's in politics, you can make a big difference.

Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests.

Imagine the wars we would've avoided if prior generations had a website where they could debate tragedy and politics in terse sentences?