Politics Quotes

One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

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.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Politics is a good thing!

Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.

I came into American politics and into this political system proud of politics and the way we make decisions.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

In politics, there are no friends.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.

It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.

Politics is applied biology.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.