Politics Quotes

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

The general will is always right.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

I'm enjoying turning down all requests for interviews. I don't miss being in politics.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

I'm sure I could fall in love with a Democrat as easily as a Republican. Some things transcend politics.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

Politics, in my judgment, has become not just the means to a policy ends, but it's become the end itself. Politics has become the sport that we all watch, and we all pay attention to.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

The politics of transgender identity are really complicated. And the debate over how much of gender is biological and how much of it is socially constructed is a very complex debate.

Our constituency aren't the type of people to be on the Internet.

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

George Bush has met more foreign heads of state than I have. But a substantial number of them were dead.

I've paid my dues. I've earned your votes. Send me.

We must give the American worker the first option of ownership.

You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I'm a warrior at heart; I'm an ex-Navy Seal. I'm too old to wage war anymore, and so now I wage it mentally. And so I find politics very stimulating; it's war without guns.

Yes, and you should question your government.

God of ages, Lord of Time, mine is the right to be wrong.

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

The politics of fear has brought us everything we are afraid of, including the endless wars, the collapsing economy - all the rest.

I have always been involved in issue-based politics, not party politics - I was never really originally drawn to party politics.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

There used to be a lot more politics in the Olympics, when the Soviet Bloc committed a lot of resources for propaganda purposes.

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, .. It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.

If you want to have any success in politics, sing softly and carry a big guitar.