Politics Quotes

I've never been interested in, much in the politics of the art world, it doesn't interest me.

Caricatures created by politics never fit comfortably into the Oval Office.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.

The science is getting worse faster than the politics is getting better.

Slate is not a political magazine but a lot of what it does is politics.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

Vladimir Putin wants to become the de facto head of an illiberal, xenophobic, hypernationalist trend in world politics.

I've never encountered someone in public life who has less desire to hold office than Michelle Obama, though she is incredibly gifted at retail politics.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

She has all the qualities of leadership, except followers.

But the biggest fake of the year, Paul Begala's last smile

He loves basketball. And I said Obama loves basketball. Let's start there, all right. Start there.

He loves power. He loves control because others, you know, dad and stuff like that, but he's just a great guy. He's just a great guy.

He wants Obama to do one thing, call him ... He said, if you can, Dennis, I don't want to do war. I don't want to do war. He said that to me.

I hate the fact that he's doing that, but the fact is that, you know what, that's a human being, though. He let his guard down one day to me, a friend.

A newborn has more skills than does a politician. The infant babbles, burbles, cuddles, coos; the politician just babbles.

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.

The ability of a country to wage war is not an accurate measure of its strengths, but of its fears.

I’m planning to stay in politics now, but, you know, George Burns worked until he was 100. I don’t know. I don’t want to be a Senator until I’m honored.

I think no one knows my politics.

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

Politics takes patience, time, listening and endless meetings.

Politics is a substitute for violence.

The Darwinian adaptive trait of our time is the ability to figure out when we are being lied to on television.

Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.

If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.

The most basic decision a modern politician must make is whether to be aggressive or conciliatory.

It is from the center that leaders must lead.

There is no substitute for a clear vision and a decisive direction.

There is literally no such thing as an idea that cannot be expressed well and articulately to today's voters in thirty seconds.

[T]he harm [Clinton AG] Reno did to American national security in the fight against terror was incalculable.

...nobody would think of asking the U.N. General Assembly what it thinks because it is dominated by nations with no power and less legitimacy

... the top 10 percent of incomes pay 70 percent of the income taxes and cast about 25 percent of the vote.

I probably had 150 meetings with Trent Lott. He has said exactly as many racist things to me as Bill Clinton has, which is to say zero.

The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.

I am not in politics. 'President Mutombo?' No, no, no. There has never been a politician in my family, and I am not going to try to be the first one.

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

Is there a way to discuss climate change without politics or religion getting in the way?

Abe Lincoln died because he stood for liberty and truth.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

In politics, victory is never total.

When someone with a rural accent says, "I don't know much about politics," zip up your pockets.

I read all these stories that I don't know anything about politics. But I must know something. I've had some good victories in Congress, and I've survived this town for four years.

One of the biggest stories in all of politics worldwide, in all of politics in this country, for decades is what's happened with the Republican Party.

I'm asking the American people to rise above the noise and the clutter of our broken politics.

That's the problem in politics. One wrong word and it's over.