Politics Quotes

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.

I love this sport and I don't want to get involved in politics.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Politics is a blood sport.

Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Still I was concerned that politics would get between us and our POWs.

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Politics is compromise.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.

Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.