Politics Quotes

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

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.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

People like passion in politics.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people; before, they were run by creative people.

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.

There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.

Once you start saying, 'Let's talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,' it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.

I am not interested in politics at all. At home, around the dinner table, we never discuss politics.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

There is no gambling like politics.

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'