Politics Quotes

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

I reiterate that I am strongly committed to working with those on all sides of politics to improve how Parliament operates.

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

In my case, I was covering politics in Texas as a newspaper man in the 1960's.

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

I don't miss politics.

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Politics is not about money.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

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.