Politics Quotes

My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

The Blair government has lowered the standing of politics and politicians in our country.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America.

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

Politics is cyclical.

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.