Politics Quotes

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Politics is activity in relation to power.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

Good government is good politics.

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

History is more interesting than politics.

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues; it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.