Politics Quotes

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

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.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

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.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.

Politics is a contact sport.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

I fundamentally believe that politics is counterintuitive. The left think they're helping working people by providing more rights, but all that actually happens is you create poverty and despair, because jobs go to your competitors who have fewer rights for workers.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

In physics, to be in two places at the same time would be a miracle; in politics it seems not merely normal, but natural.

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarisation and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

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.

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

Anyone in politics would like to have great economic numbers.