Politics Quotes

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Finality is not the language of politics.

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?