Politics Quotes

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

You don't go into politics unless you want to win.

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

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

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

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.