Politics Quotes

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.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Finality is not the language of politics.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

Politics makes me sick.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.

Negative politics have always been around.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

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.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

Politics is applesauce.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Architecture is politics.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.