Politics Quotes

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.

My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself.

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics, religion, virtually anything.

I don't follow politics much.

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.

Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more.

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

My suspension was a long-planned move... and was done to protect would-be convicts in Romanian politics.

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

I have no political aspirations, although a lot of people believe that politics and acting go hand in hand.

I was totally absorbed in the real world, the politics, the history, the news, and I just couldn't find my way into the fictional world... When I finally could return to writing the novel, it was in fits and starts.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately.

But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.