Politics Quotes

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

I love the ACLU and I'm concerned now, especially when it comes to our rights, with current politics and the religious community and the Conservative majority or minority - I don't know who they are.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

Most politicians - those people who live, eat and breathe politics - like to sit around and talk about politics and tell political war stories. Reagan didn't do that. His war stories were movie war stories and Hollywood war stories. He loved that.

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

I was in the room with, you know, more than a dozen Republicans trying to negotiate the stimulus. Most of them decided the politics of the situation meant they should walk away, even if it wasn't responsible in terms of what our country needed right then.

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered.

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Politics and football don't mix.

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

Politics is show business for ugly people.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Writing is the continuation of politics by other means.

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't.