Politics Quotes

Half of Japan still couldn't tell the difference between crime and politics.

In the home of the brave, Jefferson turning over in his grave.

Frankly, sharing a media market with Chuck Schumer is like sharing a banana with a monkey. Take a little bite of it, and he will throw his own feces at you.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

Party politics divides friendships sometimes.

Politics in America has become a Jewish profession, just like arts and the law.

You have to be either naive or power-hungry to get into politics. I wouldn't consider it myself. I am too well-informed.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

In politics, as in life, we must above all things wish only for the attainable.

Put them in position to make their wishes come true, so they can have multiple accounts that gain interest over night.

All that foreign oil controlling American soil.

There is only one way to eat an elephant, a bite at a time.

This is not politics... it's to protect the innocence of children.

I hate to say that not everything is politics, but not everything is politics.

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.

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

People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

Do we dare to be ourselves?' This is the question that counts - and not, 'Must a man be helpless?' ...A man can do something for peace without having to jump into politics.

Senators are a never-ending source of amusement, amazement, and discouragement.

Dennis Kucinich's politics are more scrambled than Rod Steiger's dream journal.

Politics comes and goes, but your principles don't. And everybody wants to be loved -- not everybody. ... You never heard anybody say, 'I want to be despised, I'm running for office.'

There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The "negroes" of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours.

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

Success comes only for those groups that overcome the all-too-human behavioral tendencies that corrupt teams and breed dysfunctional politics within them.

All politicians promise that which they cannot deliver. I just wish they did so less gleefully.

Under New Labour, only the future is certain. The past keeps changing

In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

The key to success in politics: Never forget, seldom forgive.

Ah, Feminism in the nineties, what a What is yours what is mine field.

You know, in politics when you come in third, it's a win.

The only way I could be extradited is through the principle of what my lawyers call "politics trumps law."

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.