Politics Quotes

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

In politics, victory is never total.

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

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.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

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.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.