Politics Quotes

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

What does an actor know about politics?

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

I leave the politics at the office when I go out.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.

SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.

Russian politics was focused for too long on fixing past mistakes - fixing the mistakes made in the 1990s.

Unjust rule does not last forever.

Politics is the best game in town.

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.

I just think the most difficult thing to displace is privilege.

There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

Iraq has not been disarmed 100 percent [but] in terms of what they [Iraqis] have accomplished there are no meaningful weapons or weapons production capability in Iraq today.

Common Lisp is politics, not art.

You gotta be think'n Sam Adams, not drink'n Sam Adams

[Donald Trump] doesn't have the money to run commercials and I launched into a tirade on money in politics.

I think in the world of politics run by the left, men have been chickified.

Skepticism requires disbelief and curiosity, not conformity to conventional wisdom. There's no science here. This is pure politics.

The absolutely worst thing that could happen to anybody in politics when they're appearing in public is to sweat.

Whatever you think of Romney and his politics, as a human being there's none better. As a man of integrity, man of character, there's none better.