Politics Quotes

Everything is politics.

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.

If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

I never have been involved in politics.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

I always enjoyed politics. I worked at the White House recently, primarily for the First Lady. Because of my experience running my travel agency, I was in charge of the files she kept on the Travel Office.

I am interested in politics.

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.