Politics Quotes

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

History is more interesting than politics.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor, so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion.

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.

Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

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.

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.

Politics is not about power.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

Politics disgusts me.