Politics Quotes

My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

I grew up in a strongly socialist family. While I was at school, I worked in party politics and with organizations like the Anti-Nazi League. Everywhere I saw it, I fought prejudice.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

I'm not in politics.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

The West Wing seems to be feeding the myth about how presidential politics are.

Anything's possible in politics.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.