Politics Quotes

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

There's politics in all aspects of our daily lives.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

I'm very literate on policy. I'm very literate on the issues, and I'm an American first. I've been involved in politics long before I was an actress. I just happen to have a platform now. I just happen to have a voice.

I haven't been very active in politics.

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

I don't want to force my politics on my readers.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.