Politics Quotes

I still have that new senator smell.

I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.

California is no longer a state, it's a hedge fund.

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

If there is any emergence of a fourth party in British politics, it is the task of the Liberal Party to strangle it at birth.

I think politics in general are just like a popularity contest but McCain is just... old.

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

There's such a kind of complicated line between politics and the law and we don't sit around and say, hey, you know, what would Oliver Wendell Holmes have had to say to this.

We have to have some form of politics. Politics is a form of resolving conflicts. Politics which comes from sincere motivation is constructive.

Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.

My climb to political success was no elevator ride, and it has not always been pretty, but I persevered as one of a handful of women in the male-dominated world of politics.

Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics

There's laws that we must live by, and they're not the laws of man.

Nasty is the new normal in Florida. Politics here is very gutterlike. It's like a very bad reality TV show that still gets very high ratings.

I've been told to keep my remarks relatively brief. I understand Quayle-hunting season begins at noon.

Public Speaking is very easy.

The destruction, it is just very heart-rendering.

Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a cure for AIDS in the marketplace before Magic Johnson gets AIDS?

I want to show you an optimistic sign that things are beginning to turn around.

I can identify with steelworkers. I can identify with workers that have had a difficult time.

It's a very valuable function and requirement that you're performing, so have a great day and keep a stiff upper lip.

The US has a vital interest in that area of the country.

I don't have to experience tragedy to understand it.

Sam, had a great time this weekend but the golf was lousey.

Clinton cannot possibly win in 2000.

Okay, I won't open it until then

Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.

In movies that tackle these political issues, there are far more interesting themes to be explored than partisan politics, which is what we get on cable news every second of every day.

Politics is cyclical.

Have you forgotten when those towers fell, we had neighbors still inside. And you say we shouldn't worry about Bin Laden, have you forgotten?

The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics

People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.

I do think British and American politics rhyme. They go in cycles. They go in Thatcher-Reagan cycles, Blair-Clinton cycles.

Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.

Clearly, politics is a team sport. Trump is not so much of a team player.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

Today, we've got what seems to me to be binary-choice politics: black and white, ones and zeros, either you are with me or against me. How did we get here?

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

Everybody in politics lies.