Politics Quotes

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

If you want to be President, decide it at the age of five, and then live accordingly.

I know too much about British politics to comment on British politics.

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

Politics is but a narrow field.

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

Today, there is a new focus on public values, the need for broad-based movements for solidarity, and alternative conceptions of politics, democracy and justice.

Education must become central to any viable notion of politics willing to imagine a life and future outside of casino capitalism.

Any collective struggle that matters has to embrace education as the center of politics and the source of an embryonic vision of the good life outside of the imperatives of predatory capitalism.

Put temptation on the unenjoyment line.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.

Our best people don't go into politics.

While vast sums of money are being siphoned off into hidden [military] coffers, Americas schools, hospitals and public services are facing cutbacks and closures.

The problem of abolishing want is not a problem in division, as the politicians so often aver; it is a problem of multiplication.

To construct a proper privacy, making it a privilege rather than a burden, we first need to construct a community-love, family, politics, art.

... after you have once ridden behind a motorcycle escort, you are never the same again

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

We regret mistakes were made.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.

We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.

I would want to see the Supreme Court reverse Citizens United and get dark, unaccountable money out of our politics.

I know what high stakes politics demands, it is a twenty-four seven, totally consuming experience.

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.

When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

You almost have to be a rock star to generate the kind of fever you need to survive in American politics.