Politics Quotes

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you.

There is no gambling like politics.

Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?

Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say, 'Oh, Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

The world is governed by opinion.

When I turned 18, was the first time that I really started concentrating on politics. And I started doing so because I realized that in order to really create and generate change, it has to come from changing laws... so I started campaigning for Norman Lear's foundation, which was Declare Yourself.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Whenever I look at pictures of horrific things that soldiers do or that have been done to soldiers I always feel sorry for everybody involved because politics throws them into these horrific situations where really it's just 18-year-old kids.

President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.

A lot of young poets today, from what I've heard and experienced, can't get their heads past George W. Bush, and I've heard so many poems about this democracy and this era of politics that I'm kind of bored by it.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.