Politics Quotes

Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.