Politics Quotes

After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.

Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.

Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

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

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Politics have no relation to morals.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

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.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.