Politics Quotes

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

The intellectual architecture means focusing on doing great work instead of focusing on agency politics.

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

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.

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.