Politics Quotes

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

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.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows.

Politics is a highly tribal business.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

There are no friends at cards or world politics.

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

There's a tendency in politics to attribute bad motivation much too quickly, and the sooner you attribute bad motivation to someone you disagree with, the harder it is to find some common ground to make some progress that would give people confidence that you got it more right than wrong.

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.