Politics Quotes

I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics; as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.

We're building an independent political program that can run electoral politics and then turn on a dime to hold our leaders to task, in case they suddenly develop that old case of amnesia! We'll be there to remind them what they promised and who they promised to work for!

Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics.

In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

I understand the damage the expenses crisis has done to Parliament, and the paramount importance of restoring trust in our politics.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.

I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

I worked in the media from the late 30's through the early 70's. Politics in general became more liberal both nationally and within the state as the years passed.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

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