Politics Quotes

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

Yes, you need substance in politics - but I think your style also says something about how you arrive at some of your conclusions.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

We can't make any statements here. We can't talk about the internal politics of Paraguay.

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.

The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

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.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.