Politics Quotes

President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.

Sports and politics don't mix.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.

Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spitoons.

You can't have a discussion about politics without mentioning Ronald Reagan.

History is the key to everything: politics, religion, even fashion.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

All fundamental political problems are problems of relationships; therefore, all fundamental solutions have to involve fundamental changes in relationships.

It is hostile to a democratic system to involve the judiciary in the politics of the people.

Politics ain't beanbag: 'tis a man's game, and women, children 'n' pro-hy-bitionists had best stay out of it.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

Symbols mean a lot in politics. They indicate a will and create new realities.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

So are we still trying to end racial politics or are there just too many advantages to some political parties for that?

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

All that we got here is American made. It's a little bit cheesy, but it's nicely displayed.

Journalism is kind of scary and of it we should be wary.

We must save the Constitution from the [Supreme] Court and the Court from itself.

I describe in 'Chimpanzee Politics' how the alpha male needs broad support to reach the top spot. He needs some close allies and he needs many group members to be on his side.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

We hold from God the gift which includes all others. This gift is life - physical, intellectual, and moral life.

The connection between romantic politics and aesthetics is plain in Schiller's and Novalis's concept of the aesthetic or poetic state.

There have been times when I've made special arrangements to meet people in music, film, business or politics, and I'll continue to do so if the people are sincere.

Gradually, they learned that politics is fundamentally a great business, a struggling and a haggling for advantages, over whose lap collects the most rewards cast by the legislation-machine.

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

There's not a single chef I know of that does not think about the politics of the food they're serving.

Truth refuses to be subservient to either politics or the market.

We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Why is it that Christian activists are regularly pilloried for basing social standards on biblical texts while liberals are actually praised for mixing religion and politics?

Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many

It's very difficult to make predictions about the Iranian politics, but given the fact that Ahmadinejad was elected with a very clear purpose - to improve the economy - and he's failed.

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

I don't want to get involved in Australian politics. You are a democracy, and Australian people should decide who they will vote for and I'm not mingling or interfering in that all.