Politics Quotes

I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

This is how the great post-partisan, post-racial, New Politics presidency ends - not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with a desperate election-eve plea for ethnic retribution.

Look at politics; they're always in competition over an election, who wants to win. It's just who we are, it's what we do.

A lot of celebrities relish politics and are eager to lend their names to candidates and causes. I never wanted to be a spokesman for anybody.

Powers once assumed are never relinquished, just as bureaucracies, once created, never die.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.

I don't talk about my politics. I am registered as an independent.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.

Politics is a profession, and a form of service, and it should draw people who are passionate and have deep experience of the complex, changing nature of the world.

All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.

To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.

I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left

Things that are viral are things that motivate people to say I have to share this with everyone I know, and that has been more politics lately, and that's completely understandable.

I grew up in a household where we talked politics a lot and argued politics a lot.

The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.

The real difference between relationship politics and transactional politics is loyalty. [Barack] Obama doesn't seem to expect it.

I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.

The thing is, I hate political comedy. I personally loathe it.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

I am an advocate... of public financing for years. That is the one way to get money out of politics. I believe that would be what we ought to be doing.

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that.

One of the many dreadful aspects of the Kennedy 'legacy' is the now-unbreakable grip of celebrity politics, image-doctoring, stage management, and "torch-passing" rhetoric in general.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

We become accomplices in evil every time we seek to soothe the unslakable appetites of the crime family that sits in Pyongyang.

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

There are no more slow weeks. I realized this about 3 years ago. Downtime in politics isn't a thing.

Brain surgery is not like politics and vice versa.

Where we are in politics is running down whatever doesn't agree with you.

I can understand that if you have sold arms to the ayatollah why you might not be quite as sensitive to the need to get assault weapons off our streets.

I don't care about the politics, I don't care about the practicality, I don't care about any of it.

At times, the most dangerous politicians have been those impelled by dreams and ideals, rather than basic realities.

I haven't been very active in politics.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Any democratic sentiment propels my politics.

Our model of politics is one that it is inclusive of all members of the society; all should be represented. That is the nature of our democracy.

I'm not active in politics. I vote as a citizen. And if somebody cares to know what my opinion is at the time of the election, I might or might not share it publicly.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

We're in the middle of the transformation of a society that has handled its politics through repression to a society that will handle its politics through democratic institutions.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

I don't know an actor who hasn't let himself down at some point. I imagine it's the same in politics. There's always the potential to self sabotage.

I've got to put forward a very strong conservative voice, advocate for conservative values and advocate for principle in politics to restore faith in politics.