Politics Quotes

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

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.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

History is more interesting than politics.