Politics Quotes

I think politics should be expressed in this way and not in other ways. And not just politics - sentiments, even certain states of being.

I think I might write a book. I like writing. People have asked me if I would get into politics, but I think I feel a lot more effective being a representative of truth through the arts.

It's hard to talk about politics in a Hollywood world.

There are some Christians who totally disengage from politics and set their minds on heaven so much that their faith is so heavenly minded that it is no earthly good.

What is the point in calling anything God if it does not also hold sway in every part of one's life--especially one's politics?

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

You know, it's just politics, it's a game grown-ups like to play, like we lil' children play with toys.

SHADOW KNIGHT'S MATE is a compelling story, extremely well-written and alarmingly plausible. Jay Brandon does for politics what Dan Brown did for religion.

Give me some credit for the hell I've paid.

Philosophy is a bad master for poetry; religion worse; and politics self-serving will never serve the Muse.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.

I was young. I was 23 or 24. I just wasn't a fan of the politics of campaigning - of going into that environment and competing and trying to get into the good graces of the writers.

You can't solve a spiritual problem with politics. You may as well as throw the Parliament to a drowning man.

Wise men and gods are on the strongest side.

Politics enter dangerous ground, when people proclaim there are simple answers for our complex world.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

My politics just kind of developed over time as a reaction.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I have no interest in behaving or thinking cynically. But it's an easy trap to be cynical about anything, certainly when you're talking about politics or the media.

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.

The one thing you never want to do in politics is take the hit for someone else's misconduct - especially someone as erratic as President Trump.

Theory-free science makes about as much sense as value-free politics.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

My politics were really radical when I was younger, and then I moderated like everyone else does when they start having kids.

Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

These days in particular it seems not only unavoidable but even irresponsible to not acknowledge politics in some way.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

Chris Christie's rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution.

I was born and grew up in the Deep South, and I must say it wasn't easy for me. I always marched to a drummer, I had different views about politics and religion and I had them relatively young.

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

The only thing that could possibly save British politics would be Margaret Thatcher's assassin.

Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Hell is full of high court judges.

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didnt realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

I love the way business works, when there's a crisis or a scandal, there is blood on the floor. Somebody pays, people are held accountable, that's just not politics.

You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much.

To me, politics is an extension of what I do in medicine.

If the breaking news story had to do with hard news, politics specifically, I had a lot to do with it. If it had to do with music, Kurt Loder was more involved.

In the struggle between those seeking power there is no middle course.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.