Politics Quotes

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists.

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

On the contrary, the characteristic element of the present situation is that economic questions have finally and irrevocably invaded the domain of public life and politics.

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.

Art has nothing to do with politics. It is the freest thing in the world.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

I don't follow politics much.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.