Politics Quotes

[I talk politics with Ted Turner] quite often. Usually with a great deal of excitement, because he has one political view and I have another. Despite our politics,we've agreed to be friends.

I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself.

Here comes Jesse Jackson, he talks of common ground. Does that common ground include me, or is it just a sound?

Senator, it has been reported that you have had illegal congress with your mother.

Why kill good people just to get a bad man?

Politics is the art of making civilization work.

We have an economic policy that is just about 10,000 years out of date.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

The scarcity that afflicts the world is not the fault of either science or nature. The cause is defective economic institutions which abort technology's affluence producing potential.

Property in everyday life, is the right of control.

It is the institutions of society, not parental genes, that bestow the blessings of ownership of productive capital.

Political power without economic power is sterile.

politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

We had to restructure our military and our politics and so on. We're a new democracy. We're a nascent democracy.

I don't think that politics are as complex as people like to make them seem or out to be.

On Politics: When our people get to the point where they can do us some good, they stop being our people.

If it's just politics that's running music, f - k that. I'm out of here! I can't think of anything more boring.

I am the only high-ranking U.S. official to ever meet with Kim Jong-il, and we are the same height and both wear high heels.

It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris.

Political success is often dependent on the ability to be heard above the din of controversy and debate and to set a course with one's own compass.

A desire to succeed in politics is propelled by these two seemingly contradictory forces, which frequently change places and sometimes coexist: to save others and to save oneself.

My parents were older than normal when they had me, and had been very into the politics of the 1960s, so I was brought up in that atmosphere.

At a time when political correctness is valued over honesty I would also like to say right on motherfuckers!

Right, sure. Because there's no girls in politics! I have no interest. Voting? What? I forgot my apron. I think I ought to be in the kitchen right now, actually. My rolling pin-

This campaign of non-cooperation has no reference to diplomacy, secret or open. The only diplomacy it admits of is the statement and pursuance of truth at any cost.

The best politics is right action.

Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored.

The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

Politics bereft of religion is absolute dirt, ever to be shunned.

No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.

Policy is driven by more than politics, however. It is equally driven by ideas.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick.

[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.

The question is not whether or not there should be a cult of the individual, but rather whether or not the individual concerned represents the truth, if he does then he should be worshiped.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

I pretty much ignored politics all through my 20′s and 30′s... I had other things on my mind... the band, finding a meaningful relationship, getting enough money to eat and pay the rent.

I don't seek controversy. I don't seek to antagonize. Sometimes it happens, but I'm not there to argue politics.

I knew most of my radio listeners were lefty political people, and I decided definitively not to be that guy - not to address politics.

The IPCC summary for policymakers is used to scare politicians and goad the public into action. The UN is all about politics.

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I cant imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

I think Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to everyone in the United States. Politics is always about getting the support of the majority of our people.

I have been an underdog my whole life, both in life and in politics. We're going to do well. We're going to pick up a lot of delegates on Super Tuesday.

A s laws multiply, injustice increases.

Here we will have possibly a bunch of tax dodgers deciding the election.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

In politics, there are no friends.