Politics Quotes

In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty .

I stay as far away from politics as possible, or any controversy.

I know politics; I know the media.

Local politics matters a lot.

Black politics is redemption and transformation. It's not always pretty, but it's not always ugly either. I'll put India.Arie up against Donald Trump any day and let the people choose.

You cannot have politics without building mass-movements.

There's not a dime's worth of difference between Obama and Romney.

Perhaps it is the expediency in the political eye that blinds it.

People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.

Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.

Cuba seems to have the same effect on US administrations as the full moon has on werewolves.

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

I was elected leader of our party, for a new kind of politics, by 60% of Labour members and supporters. The need for that different approach now is greater than ever.

Maybe it's because I've never been in politics, but I don't believe that America is run by politicians in Washington. I believe it's run by people like us, in places like this.

The problem is, we have yet to convince the Taliban they are fellow passengers on spaceship Earth.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

No party is as bad as its leaders.

There is a hundred things to single you out for promotion in party politics besides ability.

I belong to no organized political body. I am a Democrat.

Politicians, after all, are not over a year behind public opinion.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.

They are each good when they are out, and each bad when they are in.

We elect our Presidents, be they Republican or Democrat, then start daring 'em to make good.

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.

Politics, when I am in it, makes me sick.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

You can't be involved in modern American politics without somebody attacking you.

I love the HRC. The initials are great.

It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.

No more fiendish punishment could be devised, were such a thing physically possible, than that one should be turned loose in society and remain absolutely unnoticed.

That's always been the case in America; there's been a big spectrum in how much people are interested in American politics.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

[Senators John Kerry & John Edwards] have risen high in Democratic polls with a brand of class resentment and soak-the-rich rhetoric rooted in the old-fashioned liberalism of Ted Kennedy.

The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here, Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear.