Politics Quotes

The biggest story in all of politics are the millions of people that are coming out to vote for me, in all fairness, for the Republican Party.

The evangelical and religious community has much to contribute to our politics, yet our laws prevent you from speaking your minds from your own pulpits.

I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

Nobody, nobody, perhaps in the history of politics was worse to women or abused women more than Bill Clinton.

Hopefully our great movement powered by everyday citizens will overcome the sickness that is plaguing our politics and our media.

Ted Cruz has been playing an ad about me that is so ridiculously false, no basis in fact. Take ad down, Ted. Biggest liar in politics.

There were 17 people in the race. I got more votes than anybody in the history of Republican politics. By millions.

There's never been anybody in the history politics in America that's been so abusive to women. So you can say any way you want to say it, but Bill Clinton was abusive to women.

Barbara Jordan is one [of the political heroes]. Her 1976 speech in New York inspired me to get into politics.

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV.

I'm very interested in politics, and I feel TV is a more political medium than film.

People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled 'politics'.

I never thought I was a libertarian until I picked up Reason magazine and realized I agree with everything they had printed.

I'm more patriotic than I am political - I appreciate politics but I'm not quite too sure if that's a road I'm willing to go down.

People like passion in politics.

The Constitution is a 200-year-old parchment, simply because we digitize the words should not suggest their meanings change.

Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world.

With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness.

In history-as-politics, the 'future' is that vacuum in time waiting to be filled with the antics of statesmen.

She's a wonderful, wonderful person, and we're looking to a happy and wonderful night - ah, life.

I won't yield to anyone about guns in our society. I know enough about it.

As for my personal politics, some people seem to think I'm some kind of archlibertarian, a hyper-conservative.

The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."

The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

Hating politics was like hating the weather. Pointless, since both were inevitable.

San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it's my kind of politics. It's like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.

As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

Religion and politics are supposed to be separate.

...real prosperity can only come when everybody prospers.

If it's a man's game so decidedly that a woman would be soiled by entering it, then there is something radically wrong with the American game of politics.

We bought it, we own it, and we're going to take it back.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

It's because I'm only interested in the big things that I'm not interested in politics.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

I never saw the man yet that came out of politics as clean as he went into 'em.

Michel Aflaq - is bad poetry wrapped in the guise of utopian politics, or great poetry wrapped in the guise of horrible politics.

The cost of living in sin would make a poor man out of Paul Getty.

I had always been fascinated by the bizarre world of cards. It was a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments were meted out immediately.

We can't have these great corporations crowding competition off the sidewalks. It's like an elephant saying, "Everyone for himself," as he dances among the chickens.

Young people need to re-engage with politics. The life of democracy depends on it. We've left it to the stuff shirts, and obviously they haven't been minding the store.

My morals went when the president got oral.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

Corruption of politics has nothing to do with the morals, or the laxity of morals, of various political personalities. Its cause is altogether a material one.

[A]n Obama presidency would be an amusing approximation of the Carter administration, complete with vaporous moralizing and foreign policy bungling.