Politics Quotes

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Good government is good politics.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.