Politics Quotes

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

I must express my protest against continually increasing the debt without taking positive steps to slow its growth.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

All great changes are irksome to the human mind, especially those which are attended with great dangers and uncertain effects.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.

I am the one person who can truthfully say, I got my job through the New York Times.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

A fundamental premise of politics is we can make this work if people just never figure it out.

I can tell you, Massachusetts, fastest growing sector of our economy is clean energy and energy efficiency companies. And they're growing faster than any other sector.

Nobody understood better than Mr. Lincoln the obvious truth that in politics it does not suffice merely to nominate candidates. Something must also be done to elect them.

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.

The experience of being disastrously wrong is salutary, no economist should be denied it, and not many are.

The greater the wealth the thicker will be the dirt.

Economists are economical, among other things, of ideas; most make those of their graduate days do for a lifetime.

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

Politics is not really my thing.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.