Politics Quotes

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

To inspire others, you must first inspire yourself. Only true passion can awake passion in others

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).

Silence is what causes most of humanity's problems

The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.

The natural law is an instrument for progress, not a weapon of revolution.

They're called 'facts', and my role is to amplify those, not cheerlead. And I don't care at all what you think of my motives.

Politics is not about power.

I'm obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.

Fiction should always steer clear of political considerations.

I despise charity. It gives crumbs to a few and silences the others.

Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

In politics, as in business, leadership is crucial.

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

History is really a study of the future, not the past.

We know we are all tarnished, so we doubt everyone else too. It is sad situation, where we need a leader but cannot really trust anyone.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

No one is fighting for my freedom unless they are doing it on my soil.

Competition works best in sports, but humans get addicted to stuff.

There is nothing revolutionary whatsoever about the control of women's bodies by men. The woman's body is the terrain on which patriarchy is erected.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

In politics you learn to always smile.

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

[In politics] when A goes after B and there's a C, and D and a Q all lined up there, you have no idea who's going to be the beneficiary.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

Wars come and go; politics endure.

It sure is hell to be president.

I always considered statesmen to be more expendable than soldiers.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

Since one cannot educate adults, the word "education" has an evil sound in politics; there is a pretense of education, when the real purpose is coercion without the use of force.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.