Politics Quotes

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do

You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book

Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.

Who would want to buy a good car when you can buy an American car?

Concerned we're in a time where politicians can't even fake sincerity. Aren't they supposed to be good at that?

I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.

I'm not going to talk too much politics because I'm not smart enough to do that.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d’oeuvres.

I come from a place of sincerity. I write about what I see and feel. I write about what I want, I don't have a political agenda. Politics may enter into a song but it always comes from the heart.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

It's perfectly possible for somebody to make the transition from politics to journalism.

How can we be isolating ourselves when it's 16 to 3 in NATO for what we want to do?

It's not unilateral when it's 16 to 3! Can't you count?

There is no gap between art and politics.

It would be great if all the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow.

I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences.

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

We would like to have a great future, so we need to think about the urban philosophy, the urban problems, and the construction of the city. That's the new politics, maybe.

Is there decency left in American politics?

The onset of one religion can be resisted only by another.

If a state, or nation, has laws it will not enforce for political reasons, it mocks both the law and politics, to say nothing of the cultural order.

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

These things do not happen by chance. There is much less luck in public affairs than some suppose.

[Sarah] Palin is solidifying her status as a bona fide American cultural heroine.

As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.

Religion is one of the fundaments of Hillary Clinton's character and politics.

.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.

Politics is the womb in which war develops - where its outlines already exist in their hidden rudimentary form, like the characteristics of living creatures in their embryos.

Hurricane Katrina was caused by political correctness. I said it!

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Politics is different than business.

I think its time to get a reapportionment process that frankly takes out the incumbency protection and the raw politics of the process.

Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

Damn Americans. I hate those bastards.

We must recognize that personal freedoms diminish as the welfare state grows. The price of more and more public programs is less and less private freedom.

Kelso and Adler's book could start a revolution.

Folk art has never been much about politics; it's about action and utility.

I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music.

Appearances are significant, and never more than in politics. You can always sway the crowd, provided you have a good story.

Epicurus was not at all interested in what we would call the problems of mass society, and he thought civic politics was just trouble and to be avoided by the wise.

Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.

Women are the volatile vote at the end-particularly independent, non-college-educated married women.

We should realize that the average family in America spends five minutes a week on politics.

The fastest surging woman leadership position is heading non-profit organizations. Women are not rejecting leadership positions -- they're rejecting politics.

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.