Politics Quotes

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.

There are ways in which art can have a longer reach than politics.

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

I am the Olympic Ambassador. I always promote Olympics. I just want to say, Olympics is Olympics. [You] cannot mix with politics. Olympics for me is love, peace, [being] united.

Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

Wars come and go; politics endure.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

It's an article of faith in Tinseltown: when liberals get mired in scandal, it's because they are tragically flawed; when conservatives get in trouble, it's because they are evil.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

Focus on the competition to diminish the time dedicated to internal politics.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

Ah, if only the best place for storing embryonic stem cells was Yucca Flat.

From Day One the very existence of [Camp Bravo] has been a popcorn hull in the tender gums of the hard left.

My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations.

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

These tanks were like a good rent-a-car.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which means 'bloodsuckers.'

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.