In this post, you will find great Politics Quotes from famous people, such as Sandra Day O’Connor, Rick Perlstein, Ed Koch, Jeanne Shaheen, Richard Powers. You can learn and implement many lessons from these quotes.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That’s fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Television is democracy at its ugliest.
What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
I didn’t go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.
I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.
Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.
Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.
We’ve switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics – trying to play a serious part in the world – to a culture that’s really entertainment-based.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
It’s interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics – how, if you’re an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.
The shape and composition of the government is important. We haven‘t reached a point where politics and economics have been totally divorced from each other.
Political correctness – the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media – ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.
I’ve been offered political shows before, and I don’t know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions – there’s consequences to them. I often think I’m wrong, so I really don’t like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
In politics and life, timing is everything.
It’s about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.
I’m a Republican. I may go into politics myself.
The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it’s really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
Politics is a contact sport.
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
I don’t know about politics so much. I’m a professional athlete.
The longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
I will never join politics under any circumstances.
Any new technology, if it’s used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that’s more a question of the politics of the technology.
Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.
Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn’t you know?
If I’m sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn’t mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, ‘never say never.’ You never know, I might end up joining politics.
These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.
Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.
I don’t know a lot about politics.
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But… when we’re doing news – when we’re doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we’re doing the daily news, covering politics – it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
I don’t know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.
I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
I love my homeland, but it’s an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
Any time scientists disagree, it’s because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I’m right, or you’re right, or we’re both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
‘The Museum of Innocence‘ is not about politics; it’s a love story, but I think it’s political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics – we are doing ideas. This is about hope.
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We’ve shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse – news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody‘s right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
I worked as long in a fish and chip shop as I did in Parliament. I’ve had particular experiences in politics, but they’re not my only ones, and they’re not the ones that defined me.
I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.
Politics is the art of the next best.
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning – there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it’s almost like that’s the only safe place to express yourself.
I’m confident about my stint with politics. But I won’t leave acting, one, because it brings me my daily bread, and second, I realized that whatever little extra recognition I have today, it’s thanks to my acting career.
You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
Cartoons, if you ask me, are the most powerful weapon in today’s politics. Balasaheb Thackeray has proved this.
I try to swim against the current as much as possible when it comes to the tribalism that defines the way people do politics on social media, and I try to present myself as an individual and humanistic voice. I’m interested in people, not just factions.
Politics is not an exact science. That’s why in school I loved mathematics. Everything in mathematics was clear to me.
All politics is local.
Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.
In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
‘Coriolanus’ deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I’ve been talking about politics so much because of ‘Borgen.’ It’s a nice bridge.
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.
Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement – the culture changed before the politics did.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
If bitter party name-calling turns people off then smear politics just destroys all credibility in the aims of politicians, the role of political parties and the political process itself.
War is the ultimate tool of politics.
In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.
I had no intention of entering politics, but then the force of events led me to become involved in politics.
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life… Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
My family is just like most other families – we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.
Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.
Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they’re not supposed to do politics.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
I’m not saying I shouldn’t have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn’t have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don’t vote because I don’t know anything about politics. And honestly, I can’t believe they’d let me. Isn’t that an important thing? They’ll just let me pick the president! I don’t gotta know anything!
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Politics are not my arena. Music is.
My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.
The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Uncle Matheson and my father would frequently argue long into the night about politics. Like me, he was all about socialism, togetherness and investing in people, whereas Matheson, to this day, holds very strong conservative views.
The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
As long as I don’t write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
I’m obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
In politics, there are no friends.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
Television doesn’t like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
Party honesty is party expediency.
I am not at all a politician. I don’t think I’m cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.
I’m not into politics.
I detest politics, to be honest with you. It’s a cesspool. And I don’t think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don’t believe in political correctness and I certainly don’t believe in dishonesty.
If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
I’m in politics to change things – if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples’ sandcastles.
American influence in the world is certainly considerable, but the United States does not control, directly or indirectly, the politics and economics of other societies, as empires have always done, save for a few special cases that turn out to be the exceptions that prove the rule.
Always, with any sort of politics, which is why we haven’t got any, you get extremists, and once you get extremists, you get people doing great things and terrible things… for every following of some sort, you get followers who distort things.
Let me say at the outset, there would be no space for vendetta politics in Punjab.
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.
Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics.
The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond ‘black’ and ‘white,’ we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression.
The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region… are making by giving a chance to women.
Democracies must have equilibrium… and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.
There’s a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who’s doing what and who hates who and who’s doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.
America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.
Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn’t contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
I’d like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
I think good governance and good politics can go together.
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
I have always said I will be in politics to serve as best as I can and it will take me wherever it will take me.
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
As new technologies upend the economics of climate change, the politics surrounding the environment are changing, too.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics – one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.
Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Democracy is a revelation, but it’s complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it’s exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn’t immediately make life better.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
Everybody has to remember that economics is very tied to politics.
My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.
We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life – in culture, in economy and in politics.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
I think I’d probably shine really well in a team sport, but as everybody knows, I don’t handle politics very well. A lot of team sports has a lot of politics. Individual sports, it’s all about me.
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
There is no gambling like politics.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
We don’t have to settle for disgraceful politics. We don’t have to settle for being as terrible as Donald Trump.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
‘Stay with Me’ started out being very political, largely because I’m a little obsessed with politics.
Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that’s what’s happening. They either go, or they don’t go. It’s all politics. It’s all demographics.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future.
A basic problem for people in politics is that approximately none have the hard skills necessary to distinguish great people from charlatans.
Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.
A week is a long time in politics.
I’m sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
There’s no permanent, fixed class consciousness. You can’t work out immediately what people think and what politics they have simply by looking at their socio-economic position.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Songwriting is just like any other kind of writing – it’s either fiction or nonfiction. You can even get into philosophy and politics, which I’ve done on occasion.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.
San Francisco is really fun and liberal, and it’s my kind of politics. It’s like being Jewish in front of Jewish people.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.
When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on – have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear – what remains? Nature remains.
‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.
Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives. It’s about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
Politics is show business for ugly people.
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
I’m in politics to defend the rights of Canadians – to secure a brighter future.
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
Ray Charles‘ revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.
I feel like all my films have my politics. As a film-maker, whatever story you’re telling, your value system comes out.
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade – or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
I never have been involved in politics.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job.
When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are… You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.
Good government is good politics.
Politics ruins the character.
You have to believe that it’s through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Louisiana‘s spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It’s a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.
To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.
Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
Do you think it’s possible to discuss politics without preaching?
I’ve always sort of thought that politics was a high and noble calling and a good thing to do.
The world is governed by opinion.
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party’s loyalists in the fold.
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
I just don’t think our best are in politics. I think these guys are inept.
I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics.’ All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
You’ll never get me to speak religion. You’ll never get me to speak politics.
Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson‘s investment theory of politics, as he calls it – very outstanding political economist – which essentially – I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.
Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn’t leave the Republican Party; it left me.
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies.
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
What’s different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It’s all part of the suffocating spin cycle we’re in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.
If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that’s such a rare gift. It’s underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics.
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
I think Canadians are more interested in international events than Americans because it is such a small country, so politics affect it more.
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy… fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.
I’m not giving up politics entirely – I’m just giving up leadership of a political party.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it’s an important issue, but there’s a reason that I don’t talk about politics and why I’ll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.
If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Politics is not an exact science.
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
I have an aim – I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
We need leadership. We don’t need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Am I a liberal or conservative? I’m neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I’d like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
I feel like a lot of frustration from Americans comes from when they don’t feel like they’re being represented in politics.
Man is by nature a political animal.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
Either one lives ‘for’ politics or one lives ‘off’ politics.
I’m not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics.
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
I’m not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
The best politics is no politics.
A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Politics is a blood sport.
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
I wasn’t interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can’t make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don’t even care enough to try.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn’t matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.
I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
The ‘democracy gap‘ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.
At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
We’re also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
Harvard‘s Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging – not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That’s something new for Russia.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
In the American ‘melting pot,’ identity politics wants to smash that pot – to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse.
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
I’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me.
Committed partisans are generally the most knowledgeable voters, independents the least. And the more political knowledge people have, the more apt they are to discuss politics with people who agree with, and reinforce, them.
I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I’m just a citizen.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
I’m not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I’m interested in is emotions.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.
Architecture is politics.
The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.
In Israel politics, four years is like 400 years in Europe.
I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they’re not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics.
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
I don’t have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.
The advice I’ve been giving to people all my life – that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can’t give up politics, it won’t give you up – was the advice I should have been taking myself.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else’s religion, but he’ll accept his gold.
Isn’t that what we come into politics for? To say to people: ‘You can do it, too – there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.’ And that is what I tried to do.
