Politics Quotes

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Politics is the art of the possible.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Politics is just show business for ugly people.