Politics Quotes

Sports and politics are basically all I really care about or talk about.

Anything government or politics is always exciting for me.

I am not a politics wonk. I like the idea of my writing reflecting more about who I am or other people.

The stuff that I have perhaps become known for that's based on fact, and English statesmen shouting at each other all the time, doesn't entirely represent who I am. I am not a politics wonk.

Truth is I don't think God on a daily basis. I think politics, science.

My problem with political art is not that it's bad art necessarily, but that it is terrible politics.

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.

The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

If you started a business when Christ was born and lost $1 million a day, it would still take another 700 years before you lost $1 trillion.

Sophia Loren is not a citizen.

The glory that was Lincoln's never died when he was slain.

A big mistake in politics is to think that because an issue appears to have been settled, it doesn't exist anymore. You just sweep it under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist.

Politics was my hobby, and I really spent 25 years as a full-time homemaker. I tell the feminists the only person's permission I had to get was my husband's.

Dalai Lama is taking a subtle and nuanced view of politics and he is thinking in terms of events well beyond our lifetime.

I would say that by virtue of transforming politics, [Dalai Lama] is in fact easily underestimated.

There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.

Until philosophers hold power, neither states nor individuals will have rest from trouble.

Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price.

There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue.

The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater.

Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast.

Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.

The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics.

It will be impossible to put these principles into practice unless the non-owning workers through industry and thrift advance to the state of possessing some little property.

Politics is a potent way to empower women.

Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.

As a dramatist, I don't have politics.

Pat Nixon was called the Mona Lisa of American politics. She never wrote anything. Her interviews tell us nothing.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

When have you ever seen someone who had no doubts who was also correct about anything?

[T]he politically correct are above the rules of ordinary civility, once they have identified you as an unbeliever in their religion.

I don't take art as seriously as politics.

I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics.

Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

Politics is no exact science.

Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

For man to go from less than 1% haves to 40%, living at high standard - despite decreasing resources - cannot be explained by anything other than by doing more than less.

Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

Concerning the press and politicians, the hatred for all such evangelical groups is not because of their real or fancied blunders but because they have reintroduced biblical morality into politics.

Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

I think any time you deal with humans and the way they exploit one another and cause pain you are in the realm of politics, on some level.

I am interested in risk, in art as well as in the realm of politics.

A lot of politics in art is just institutional critique, which, in my opinion, is not all that political.

[Tom Cotton] is known for his efforts to scale back legal immigration. Legal. He wants to stop legal immigrants from coming to this country. That's very popular in Republican politics .

[Facism] that incredibly loaded word we do not associate with the real American politics is being used by other conservatives, by other Republicans to talk about Donald Trump.

It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.

We have built something [a nuclear stockpile] bigger than we can drive.

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.