Politics Quotes

Passions change, politics are immutable.

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

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

The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.

To negotiate is not to do as one likes.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make other peoples' decisions for them?

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

The results of the divorce between truth and human beings can be most graphically observed in politics.

Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks.

I have had the advantage of a radical Christian upbringing

Experience has taught that politics is a game played by conmen and hypocrites.

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

All politicians have vanity. Some wear it more gently than others.

When it comes to politics, I believe you have to cut the cake so that everybody gets a piece, but at the same time, you have to keep in mind that somebody has to make the cake.

If ever I left the House of Commons it would be because I wanted to spend more time on politics.

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.

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.

The Greek word for idiot, literally translated, means one who does not participate in politics. That sums up my conviction on the subject.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

There is no more great men; there is only great committees.

A Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, John Edwards, Howard Dean, George Soros, or Al Gore looks - no, acts - like he either came out of a hairstylist's salon or got off a Gulfstream.

Trust not too much to appearances

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.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

When you straddle a thing it takes a long time to explain it.

There have been three great inventions since the beginning of time: fire, the wheel, and central banking.

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Never underestimate the ego of a politician.

There is nothing more important in business or politics than a deal is a deal.

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.

I've been in politics long enough to expect criticism and hostility. But I was unprepared for the hatred I get from Christians. Why do Christians hate so much?.

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

the new women in politics seem to be saying that we already know how to lose, thank you very much. Now we want to learn how to win.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.