Politics Quotes

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance.

If you're interested in politics and you're not following it, then it's a little bizarre.

If you talk you always end up with politics, it gets nowhere. I mean man it's strictly from the soft typewriter.

The politics of austerity, of higher taxes, decided by governments, have lengthened the economic crisis.

Every home should have a room, or at least a nook with two chairs, where it is a sin punishable by immediate expulsion to speak of money, business, politics or the state of one's teeth.

When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.

I have never felt a placard and a poem are in any way similar.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

I was certain that I was not a Marxist, but I did believe firmly that a connection between economics and politics existed.

You don't hear me lambasting, engaging in personal attacks, getting nasty. I don't think that belongs in politics.

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

When great questions end, little parties begin.

Walter Mondale once said God has no place in American politics and it turned out that God felt the same way about Walter Mondale.

The only intelligent way to discuss politics is on all fours.

Too many women in too many countries speak the same language, of silence.

Guns cause crime like flies cause garbage!

You want me to tell you what my husband thinks? My husband is not secretary of state; I am. If you want my opinion, I will tell you my opinion. I am not going to be channeling my husband.

Third party politics, at least since La Follette, has always had an element of romance.

Sometimes in the middle of a presidential campaign, there's a political movie, and people are sick of hearing about politics, and they don't want to see that movie. They'd rather see "Godzilla."

We live in times of wonderful technology and crappy politics. The task before us now is not to let the latter destroy the former.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

No man has ever ruled other men for their own good.

If we were to place our power at the service of our imaginations rather than our primate politics we would create a civilization worthy of the name.

I'd like to apologise to the British people for the state our politics is in.

Politics is a game of friends.

I believe every Christian should be involved in politics.

Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.

I never thought I would end up being an actress. I thought I really was going to do serious stuff like law or politics.

If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Politics make me sick

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Everyone has been to school. Everyone has a sense of classroom dynamics and politics, regardless of subject matter. And if you've lived long enough, everyone hits a big life transition.

Government spending? I don't know what it's all about. I don't know any more about this thing than an economist does, and, God knows, he doesn't know much.

Justice is the one thing you should always find.

No longer can we rely on those same people in the media and politics who will say anything to keep a rigged system in place. Instead, we must choose to believe in America.

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

...associational ad hominem attacks remain the left's favorite rhetorical strategy for undermining opponents.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

In the end, the tragedy of Harold Wilson was that you couldn't believe a word he said

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

The central moral issue of science is that we do not have a science of peace and hardly know where to begin in building one.

The cause of the riots were the rioters

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

It is one of the greatest economic errors to put any limitation upon production.We have not the power to produce more than there is a potential to consume.

If you come across an American artist right now who has no political opinions or is afraid of talking politics, be very concerned.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.