Politics Quotes

The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.

If you're not turned on by politics, politics will turn on you.

No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the politics, usages, and arts, of his times shall have no share.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

A man known to us only as a celebrity in politics or in trade, gains largely in our esteem if we discover that he has some intellectual taste or skill.

Public opinion, I am sorry to say, will bear a great deal of nonsense. There is scarcely any absurdity so gross, whether in religion, politics, science or manners, which it will not bear.

In politics and in trade, bruisers and pirates are of better promise than talkers and clerks.

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word politics ....?

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

A good deal of our politics is physiological.

A party is perpetually corrupted by personality.

There are men who, by their sympathetic attractions, carry nations with them, and lead the activity of the human race.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I'd like to explain why you fine young men had to be blown apart to defend this mud hole.

Comfort the weak and feel the poor. What on earth do we need government for?

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere.

I'm not cheap, you understand, I'm just a cut price person in a low budget land.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

We are the Draft Beer Preservation Society.

I am an optimist. If I ever quit being an optimist, I guess I'll become a Republican.

I always feel that in politics, you have a bridle on. Well, I took the bridle off. And I tell you, it felt pretty good.

As a matter of fact I don't like politics. I really don't. I think it's so jaded now and everybody has to follow the party line.

I think that President Trump found it - which is what America, what all of us, were starving for the whole time because we're so sick of politics and politicians.

Perhaps the most significant moral characteristic of a nation is its hypocrisy.

Politics deals with a common-sense approach to the imponderables of history, that I think are obscured by a certain kind of rationalism.

I've been doing politics 30 years. I've never seen an election like this [in 2016]. This is entirely unpredictable.

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

No matter the good news anywhere else, these nuke-hungry rogue states will provide grounds for bad-mouthing Bush foreign policy.

We should learn to understand natural selection, so that we can oppose any tendency to apply it to human politics.

We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.

There's been an instant desire to try to take some of the rhetoric that has done so well for Mr. Trump and apply it to Australian politics.

Where the hell is Chad?

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

I never leave a game before the last pitch, because in baseball, as in life and especially politics, you never know what will happen.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

Good, bad or indifferent, I'm transparent with my opinions and what I believe. I just don't think in politics you can be that way.

A lot of people have been asking whether I would ever go into politics. I'm not sure I would.

Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?

This is politics. People in power never have to play by the same rules.

It is time to let America be America again. To return freedom to the people. To stand on our founding principles and reject the cynical politics of the Nanny State.

Either faith in Christ can cleanse all people of their sin, or none, but not some... The truth of Christ's death, resurrection and power over sin is absolute.

In 1923 there were no government benefits for immigrants except one: Freedom!

A very small number of non-Christians, including those with radical anti-Christian agendas, have been able to control and manipulate the civil politics of America with little or no opposition.

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal.

I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.

Jill: 'I don't pay attention to politics.' Ben: 'You should. It's barely less important than your own heart beat.' Jill: 'I don't pay attention to that, either.'

You don't systematically disagree with the President of the United States or intervene in American politics and expect that he is going to bless your name.