Politics Quotes

A week is a long time in politics.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

You should never ask actors about politics.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.