Politics Quotes

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

Politics is a people business. I like people.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

In politics, guts is all.

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.

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.

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.