Politics Quotes

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]

Production does not consist in things laboriously made, but in things serviceably consumable; and the question for the nation is not how much labour it employs, but how much life it produces.

In business and in politics a man must carve and maul his way through men to get to be King of the Mountain. Once there, he can be great and kind-but he must get there first.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

I could always write songs, act, get into politics, or stay home with the kids. But I've got to have some fun.

A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. Theyre worried about getting re-elected.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Poor Al Gore, global warming completely debunked, via the very Internet you invented.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

The land of litigation, the courts are like game shows. Take what's behind the curtain the jury cries.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

There are no free lunches on welfare.

They gave me a book of checks. They didn't ask for any deposits.

Government is the agent of those who are too refined to do their own mugging.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

The momentum today behind the idea of a new global reserve currency reflects, in effect, the rise of the rest in world politics and economics, led by China.

My start in politics was watching my parents go to the polls on election day. It reminded me that being an active, engaged citizen and voter is critical to the success of our democracy.

You know, I'm a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we're fundits! We're not pundits!

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

For politics is in its essence as Adams had said, the 'systematic organization of hatred': either you were organized or you were not.

At a time when politics deals in distortions and half truths, truth is to be found in the liberal arts. There's something afoot in this country and you are very much a part of it.

"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Sentiment is the mightiest force in civilization; not sentimentality, but sentiment. Women will bring this into politics. Home, sweet home, is as powerful on the hustings as at the fireside.

Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.

One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

Why is it that govt employees makes the best spouses? Because afterthey come back from work, they are not tired and they already readthe newspapers.

It's quite an interesting time, the '20s, because the politics of England were changing quite a lot, and the class structure was starting to shift a little.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Women have more to prove than men when it comes to politics.

I'm interested in politics, what's going on in the world, how people behave and how your life is often in the hands of other people.

[On Ronald Reagan:] Jane Wyman seemed more upset with her husband's obsession with politics than I. I tried to make her laugh. 'He'll outgrow it,' I told her. To her it wasn't funny.

There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.