Politics Quotes

International politics is not my strong suit. The older I get the less certain I am that I even HAVE a strong suit.

Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.

I was interested in politics since the age of 14.

I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

I find politics in almost every country I go to be incredibly different and incredibly similar and I'm never surprised by anything.

What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

We don't think of ourselves as a dynasty. I really hope some of my grandkids will be actively involved in politics.

Long time ago when we were fab, back when income tax was all we had.

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Error held as truth has much the effect of truth. In politics and religion this fact upsets many confident predictions.

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.

This is what Newt Gingrich has wrought - is a politics in which it's very easy to destroy and very hard to build.

Politics should seize the imagination.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

I don't know how we continue to do politics in a democracy if we simply can't listen to one another, if we simply close the door and say you are beyond redemption.

In ancient Greece, politics and the market were not decoupled.

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

In Washington, when you’re a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what’s right for the people.

Party politics is now a real farce.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

I've been trying to tame our press corps ever since I got into politics, and I've failed miserably. They get to express their opinions sometimes in the form of news.

I understand politics and I know there's gonna be a lot of verbage.

Free market capitalism is far more than economic theory. It is the engine of social mobility-the highway to the American Dream.

Conspiracy theories abound in American politics. I don't think we need to be subliminable about the differences between our views on prescription drugs.

You subscribe politics to it. I subscribe freedom to it.

I didn't -- I swear I didn't -- get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.

I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.

I'm just beginning to live the next chapter of my life. In other words, politics - being governor and president - is not the end of my life. It's a chapter.

I view my time in politics as a chapter, not my life.

I'm forever a former president and I understand that, but at this point in my post-presidency, I don't want to be involved with politics.

It's been a hard lesson for me , but contrary quite frankly to what is a common practice in politics, I can tell from my own experience, it is better to stay away from personalities.

No matter what your politics is, we ought to be thanking people for volunteering.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.

In baseball when they say you're out, you're out. It's the same way in politics.

I think that sports, particularly football, gave me an opportunity to be out front, to be a leader, which helped me later on, when I got into politics.

I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.

Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.

Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

All isms end in fascism.

He is only a very shallow critic who cannot see an eternal rebel in the heart of the Conservative.

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

There was a shooting at a political camp, which sounds a little like, you know, the Hitler Youth or whatever. I mean, who does a camp for kids that's all about politics? Disturbing.