Politics Quotes

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

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.

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

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.

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

I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

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.

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

Politics is too important to be left to politicians.

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

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

I don't know why anyone would want to do that politics stuff.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic.

Politics is the activity by which the framework of human life is sustained; it is not life itself.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

You're going to be accused of every high crime and low misdemeanor there is.

I have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.

Ed Miliband doesn't give a damn about what he looks like, how he dresses. He came into politics to change society.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

Peace is only better than war when it's not hell too. War being hell makes sense.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Jesse ain't running nothin' but his mouth.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

It doesn't matter what we think we are there [in Afghanistan] for; it matters what they think. They think we are invaders.

Nothing commends a radical change to an Englishman more than the belief that it is really conservative.

Hitler was never more than average as an artist. His great talent was for the games of politics.

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.

I do know that the slickest way to lie is to tell the right amount of truth--then shut up.

There is a cruelty that lurks in some men’s souls which is only released when they have other men in their power.

I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

The real question is how much suffering we've caused our womenfolk by turning headscarves into symbols - and using women as pawns in a political game.

The rich don't have to kill to eat. They employ people, as they call it. The rich don't do evil themselves. They pay. People do all they can to please them, and everybody's happy.

The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?