Politics Quotes

We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

Politics is the art of the next best.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics.

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television's most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.

When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.