Politics Quotes

The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.

Just remember that everyone is struggling; everyone is living with fear and uncertainty and it doesn't matter what their politics are.

Anyone who tries to separate or divorce domestic politics from international politics does not get it, and that might be dangerous for the future of Western Muslims.

Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

I believe everyone here has a right to speak out on politics as effectively as possible.

I'm a big believer that good policy is good politics. And so, when it comes to making decisions on policy issues, what I endeavor to do is simply speak the truth.

What I've tried to do in politics is two very simple things: tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

What animates me in politics are the economic issues of opportunity.

Would anyone else like to say anything nice about women?

The Web is trivially simple - massively successful and its like Karaoke - anybody can do it.

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.

Unfortunately, there are people in America, there are people in politics, there are people in positions of authority, who want to forcibly unarm, and force in to helplessness, American citizens.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

I'm just a socialist at heart.

When I started CNN, I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone, and he doesn't discuss contemporary US politics in any fine detail.

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

It occurs to us that so-called "freedom fries" kill many more Americans than terrorists ever do.

I believe a politics of place emerges where we are deeply accountable to our communities, to our neighborhoods, to our home.

Music is politics - it always has been and it always will be.

I would always consider myself to be political with a small "p," although it makes me mad when people say politics should be kept out of music.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.

What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

Acknowledging class was always difficult for 'New Democrats' - it was second-wave, it was divisive - but 2008 made retro politics cool again.

Conservatism is not a doctrine of contentment. Not a doctrine for the satisfied and the smug. It's a politics that's at war with the world.

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

Truth and reason are eternal. They have prevailed. And they will eternally prevail; however, in times and places they may be overborne for a while by violence, military, civil, or ecclesiastical.

Anarchy [is] necessarily consequent to inefficiency.

Error indeed has often prevailed by the assistance of power or force. Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

With nations as with individuals our interests soundly calculated will ever be found inseparable from our moral duties.

...is the spirit of the people an infallible, a permanent reliance? ...the spirit of the times may alter, will alter. Our rulers will become corrupt, our people careless.

No man has done everything he can who has done only his best.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

The first object of human association [is] the full improvement of their condition.

The only orthodox object of the institution of government is to secure the greatest degree of happiness possible to the general mass of those associated under it.

It will be said that great societies cannot exist without government.

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

I am not myself apt to be alarmed at innovations recommended by reason. That dread belongs to those whose interests or prejudices shrink from the advance of truth and science.

I see the necessity of sacrificing our opinions sometimes to the opinions of others for the sake of harmony.

Every man has a commission to admonish, exhort, convince another of error.

If we suffer ourselves to be frightened from our post by mere lying, surely the enemy will use that weapon; for what one so cheap to those of whose system of politics morality makes no part?