Politics Quotes

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

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.

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

I think that what I'm doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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.

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

A fool and his money are soon elected.

Crime does not pay as well as politics.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

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.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

I don't miss politics.

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.