Politics Quotes

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.

I don't do politics. I just like to laugh.

When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.