Politics Quotes

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

In politics, familiarity doesn't breed contempt. It breeds votes.

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

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.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

If I weren't doing the politics, I wouldn't be doing my job.

I think the American people have been surprised by the enthusiasm with which the Iraqis have taken to elections and politics.

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

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.