Politics Quotes

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

I was concerned about the link between crime and politics, and I figured out the only way I could do something about it was to get into politics.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.

I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

In politics, victory is never total.

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.