Politics Quotes

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.

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.

This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.