Politics Quotes

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

The Syrian people do not recognize themselves in the elite politics of the Muslim Brotherhood or the left, each of which is looking for an external power rather than the people's own self-activity.

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

You ought to teach kids that elections take place but that's not politics. If you want to know how legislation is made it doesn't come from elections.

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics.

When a thing defies physical law, there's usually politics involved.

Then there's politics. Just imagine politics with its dumbbell element subtracted. There would be no Republican candidates. There would be no Democratic voters. The whole system would collapse.

The key ingredient of politics is the idea that all of society's ills can be cured politically. It's like a cookbook where the recipe for everything is to fry it. The fruit cocktail is fried.

God has no role to play in politics except to make sure politicians go where they belong. To hell.

Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.

What use is it to endure the Dutch Rubs and Indian Rope Burns that are politics if you can't obtain mastery over people and give them noogies back?

I have always liked the Kennedys as politicians. They had such great hair.

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

But it could be that we, as early as spring, will need to embark on a new policy in order to save one of the cornerstones of European politics: personal freedom of movement.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

The paranoid fear of government is an extremist position, and every one of us ought to say that

As soon as you start mixing up politics and some sort of ethical code in music, you've got it all wrong.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

Average Americans, middle-class citizens, just feel disenfranchised by our government. And they feel particularly unhappy by what is perceived as business-as-usual politics in Washington.

Culture has always been more important than politics. Sometimes culture is a mirror that reflects what is; sometimes it's a search-light pointing the way to what will be.

Always attack, never defend.

[Insurgents] pose no strategic threat to the United States or to the Coalition Forces.

Distance is always helpful, and the fact that I'm a U.S. politics junkie helps a lot.

To be a liberal one doesn't have to be a wastrel.

The basic change in the landscape since my salad days started with the defensive rediscovery of history and politics by all the theoretically-oriented academics in the late seventies and eighties.

The face of totalitarianism turned out to be a mask - obviously - but the face of Capitalism has no face at all.

I don't think I've had any great success in predicting politics or social change, nor have I really tried.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

The Pound is sinking, the Peso's failing, the Lira's reeling, and feeling quite appalling.

With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

Donald Trump turned politics on its head.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

Democrats love employees, it's employers they hate.

I believe that the politics of intervention and the Kosovo war prompted a fresh resumption of the arms race worldwide.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

This is the Democratic paradox: You want so much to run America and yet you seem not so fond of Americans.

Here is an old tradition badly in need of return: You have to earn your way into politics. You should go have a life, build a string of accomplishments, then enter public service.

The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

[democrats] have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.

Speeches are more important in politics than talking points, as a rule, and are better remembered.

when men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane.

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

There's no hidden agenda, no political agenda [in Patriots Day]. The only politics we were really talking about was the politics of community, the politics of social love.