Politics Quotes

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it's not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics - especially if you're a Republican - or spirituality, it's just not something people want to hear about.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

I realize it's probably best to keep my politics to myself.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

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.

America wants solutions. America wants a leader. No more tabloid politics.

Television is democracy at its ugliest.

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Politics is a contact sport.