Politics Quotes

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.

Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

As you see the political problems are closely connected with the economical problems. With the help of politics, we will open the way for the economy and this is why all these problems are included in the program of the newly elected government.

We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

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.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.

Politics thrives on simple, clean messages, something that played to Obama's advantage in 2008. Stagnant unemployment and the loss of America's AAA rating are as simple and tough as they come. This is the economy on Obama's watch, and there's no one left to blame.

Politics, in a sense, has always been a con game.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

In my view, the future of politics is, without a doubt, social liberalism married to economic conservatism. Which means we have to make an economic argument to social liberals, that it's OK to vote for us. But we won't run the economy into the ground at the same time.