Politics Quotes

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

I don't compromise my principles for politics.

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.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

I think politics come out of psychology.

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.