Politics Quotes
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
Mark Udall
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
Richard Powers
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
Nate Silver
I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.
James McGreevey
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal
We're also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.
Katherine Dunn
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
Michael Bloomberg
The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
John Cornyn
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
H. Rap Brown
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin
I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.
George Borrow
I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.
Todd Gitlin
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
Robert Reich
I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.
Valerie Jarrett
After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.
George C. Wallace
The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.
Yoshihiko Noda