Politics Quotes

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Trust him to have his bitter politics Against his unacquaintances the rich Who sleep in houses of their own, though mortgaged. Conservatives, they don't know what to save.

Before now poetry has taken notice Of wars, and what are wars but politics Transformed from chronic to acute and bloody?

There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

It's sometimes hard to talk about politics and art. Obviously, I have my core beliefs, but I think art is best when it's troublesome and pushes against stuff.

It makes no sense to spend $6 billion a month to go after 100 Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.

Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.

There's a good deal in Pound's and Eliot's poetry that stood up even though their politics were deplorable. Or Pound's very deplorable, Eliot's kind of deplorable.

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

Milton was the first person who really experimented with putting politics into sonnets.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.

I think that in politics, when people want to discredit a particular position, they say, "Oh, they are liberals," or "They are conservatives; we are centrists." Everybody wants to be a centrist.

Justice in politics has an uncomfortable habit of being rough.

Few concepts are as basic as the role of workers in our economic structure and their participation in equity ownership.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

guilt politics ... I regard as conveniently paralyzing, ripe for backlash defensiveness, counterproductive, and boring.

We will meet our challenges head on and we will do it by rejecting the politics of mediocrity and corruption. You voted for change; I intend to deliver it. ... I will govern as a reformer.

In a year of re-election he was desperate to impress.

I quit politics because I hated it.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I think for technology and innovation we have to ignore politics.

The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

There is a limit to what you can do in politics.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

What does an actor know about politics?

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.