1000 Best Politics Quotes

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. Robert Byrne

Politics makes me sick. William Howard Taft

Optimism is the ultimate definition of a leader. A leader has to look optimistically at what is ahead while not ignoring the challenges that must be overcome. Those challenges are in government, politics, world leadership, and even in community life. Linda McMahon

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. Vladimir Lenin

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. Pat Riley

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. Jane Fonda

I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. Hunter S. Thompson

There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician? Ted Cruz

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. Woodrow Wilson

Ah, there's a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who's, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he's a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art. Brian Cox

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. Joseph Sobran

Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc. Friedrich Engels

I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies. Robert Harris

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. Jonathan Haidt

My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. Lee Atwater

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. Henry Adams

Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Daniel Webster

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world. Shinzo Abe

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

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. Thomas Jefferson

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. Tony Blair

The essential ingredient of politics is timing. Pierre Trudeau

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. Stanley Baldwin

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan

You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world. Eddie Vedder

It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. Godfrey Reggio

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. Lyndon B. Johnson

Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy - it's a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way. Tracee Ellis Ross

What I'm asking for is hard. It's easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn't possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don't matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future. Barack Obama

Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. Victor Pinchuk

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

Voting is a civic sacrament. Theodore Hesburgh

We cannot change the politics issue until we change the culture around it; until we talk about what parents do for their kids as an act of love. That's a cultural conversation. Jose Antonio Vargas

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics. Theresa May

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. Belva Lockwood

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. Malcolm Forbes

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. Jim Leach

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. Neil deGrasse Tyson

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology. Sarah Parcak

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith

The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. Peter Singer

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues. Angelina Jolie

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants. Emmanuel Macron

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. Lord Acton

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

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Lyndon B. Johnson

I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. T. D. Jakes

I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. Linus Torvalds

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. Aldous Huxley

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. Donald Rumsfeld

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. Charles Bukowski

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. John Wilkes

We can't afford to sacrifice another generation of American children to bureaucratic politics. We've got to get it done. The future, the health, the life - our nation depends on it and it's just foolish to think or act otherwise. LeVar Burton

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. Myles Munroe

What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls. Michael Leunig

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. Sandra Day O'Connor

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. Shirley Chisholm

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. Winston Churchill

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. R. Buckminster Fuller

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. John F. Kennedy

Politics is the art of controlling your environment. Hunter S. Thompson

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people. Jay-Z

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

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. John Adams

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. Adlai E. Stevenson

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. Andrew Jackson

I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics. Al Jourgensen

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. P. J. O'Rourke


When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. Patrick Lencioni

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. Gloria Steinem

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. Ralph Nader

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. John Adams

A fool and his money are soon elected. Will Rogers

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. Maynard Jackson

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium. Carrie Mae Weems

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics. Marquis de Lafayette

I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. Conor McGregor

I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. Steven Seagal

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. Pierre Beaumarchais

Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. Charles Krauthammer

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. Noam Chomsky

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. William E. Simon

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us. Bella Abzug

I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan. Rebel Wilson

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. John Quincy Adams

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. Mark McKinnon

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. Thomas Sowell

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness. Harvey Fierstein

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics. Sean Combs

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. William Howard Taft

Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward. Greg Gutfeld

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. Winston Churchill

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. Max Weber

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. Margaret Thatcher

I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. Dr. Seuss

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. Will Rogers

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. Martin Luther King, Jr.

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal. Condoleezza Rice

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. John Foster Dulles

Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people. Mauricio Macri

Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories. Jacques Perrin

And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. Seth Godin

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. Mahatma Gandhi

Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. Hans Eysenck

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it. Beau Willimon

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. Theodore White

Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. Bernard Baruch

Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. P. J. O'Rourke

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. Khaleda Zia

In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. Diane Paulus

The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike. Lincoln Steffens

When my parents force-fed me healthy food, they were confident they were giving me the best. But now, when I feed my children, I am not sure if what I am giving them is safe. Politics and pesticides are destroying our food culture. Vijay Sethupathi

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. Colin Powell

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation. Edi Rama

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. Eric Alterman

The secret of getting things done is to act! Dante Alighieri

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. Winston Churchill

Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. Neil deGrasse Tyson

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. Calvin Coolidge

We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government. Carles Puigdemont

You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you. Kerry Washington

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. Clare Boothe Luce

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard M. Nixon

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. John Kenneth Galbraith

The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines. Michael Eric Dyson

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. David Lloyd George

Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. Gloria Steinem

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. Michael Ignatieff

Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door. Caroline Leavitt

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. Herbert Hoover

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. Albert Einstein

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense. Ben Nicholson

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. Thomas Jefferson

Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.' Mo Ibrahim

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. Will Rogers

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale. Trevor Noah

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. Donald Trump

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. Harry S Truman

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. Frank Zappa

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

I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them. Al Gore

Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. Sun Yat-sen

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable. Charles Edison

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Ambrose Bierce

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. Jacob Bronowski

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change. Jane Goodall

The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything. Andrew Lloyd Webber

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. Clarence Darrow


There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. Robert Peel

These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. Anthony de Mello

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature. Antonio Damasio

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality. Hiram Rhodes Revels

Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. Mitt Romney

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessori

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. Edgar Mitchell

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics. Audrey Hepburn

Sexism is alive and well in politics, as it is in all industries. Kirsten Gillibrand

Politics ruins the character. Otto von Bismarck

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs. Tonya Harding

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. Thomas Babington Macaulay

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. Lester B. Pearson

Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. Mark Twain

The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. Stephen Bannon

The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. Deng Xiaoping

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. Maya Lin

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. Aristotle

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. Jon Katz

Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism. Maajid Nawaz

The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people. Edward Brooke

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn't a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith. Barack Obama

Politics is the art of the next best. Otto von Bismarck

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. Vladimir Lenin

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. Abraham Lincoln

I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden. Shashi Tharoor

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. John F. Kennedy

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. Emmeline Pankhurst

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. Aristotle

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests. P. T. Barnum

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Jonathan Swift

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. Will Rogers

If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. William Tecumseh Sherman

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political. Abbas Kiarostami

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. Barry Goldwater

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. Theodore Roosevelt

Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy. John Tyler

Politics is challenging for everyone's integrity... I have to wake up with myself every morning, and I have to be OK with the person I wake up with. If I string together too many days of waking up with a person I'm not happy to be, I have a lot bigger things at stake in my life than an election or a job. Betsy Hodges

It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out. J. B. Pritzker

A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. Roger Stone

The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan. Lal Bahadur Shastri

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. John Lewis

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. John Major

In politics the middle way is none at all. John Adams

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching. Justin Trudeau

Politics is show business for ugly people. Paul Begala

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. Vivienne Westwood

My three years in politics was very instructive about the way in which the appetite for political power can destroy a human mind, destroy principles and values, and transform people into little monsters. Mario Vargas Llosa

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. Otto von Bismarck

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. Milton Friedman

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. Cal Thomas

There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. Gertrude Stein

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics. Shirley Chisholm

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. Imran Khan

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. Winston Churchill

I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics. Ariel Sharon

Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. Max Weber

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. Oliver Stone

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful. Ratan Tata

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. Nate Silver

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look. Dilip Kumar

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. Margaret Thatcher

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. Thomas Paine

Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community. Eugene Ionesco

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle. John Green

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. Angela Merkel

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. Khalil Gibran

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. Rutherford B. Hayes

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. Milton Friedman

All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. August Wilson

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. Joseph Stalin


Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. William E. Gladstone

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon Bonaparte

Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. Anna Lindh

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. Alexis de Tocqueville

Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. Talib Kweli

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion. Johnny Vegas

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. Frank Lloyd Wright

I think what I would really most like to write about is palm trees and bougainvillea and hummingbirds. I would like to go into the desert and write about salamanders and the Grand Canyon, but history keeps rupturing my experience because politics are everywhere. Robin Coste Lewis

The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey. Kathryn Bigelow

There's no room for petty grievances in politics. Sergei Lavrov

The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators. Nina Simone

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' Jay-Z

Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. David Attenborough

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. Barack Obama

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. Peggy Noonan

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. Eleanor Roosevelt

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views. James McGreevey

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. H. L. Mencken

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture. Park Geun-hye

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world. Billy Sunday

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. David Lloyd George

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate. Greg Gutfeld

The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. Rebecca MacKinnon

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. P. J. O'Rourke

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. Napoleon Bonaparte

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. Aesop

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics. Jose Mujica

Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. H. L. Mencken

The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics. Mikhail Kalashnikov

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. Nelson Mandela

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. Harry S Truman

The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. Jonathan Sacks

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

I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world. Tammy Duckworth

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. Hunter S. Thompson

When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue. Yoshihiko Noda

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. R. Buckminster Fuller

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. Mao Zedong

For me, it all begins with faith; it begins with what matters most, and I try and put what I believe to be moral truth first. My philosophy of government second. And my politics third. Mike Pence

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men. Belle Boyd

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. Kin Hubbard

I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar. Tom Brady

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. Pope Francis

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. Hyman Rickover

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! William Blake

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. Grover Cleveland

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. John F. Kennedy

The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. P. J. O'Rourke

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. Dante Alighieri

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. Willie Brown

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. Pericles

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else. Pat Toomey

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

Politics have no relation to morals. Niccolo Machiavelli

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. John Stuart Mill

You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. will.i.am

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. Jeff Rich

There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. Norman Foster

Where I grew up in Vermont, there is no municipal garbage removal. You have to bring your trash to the dump every weekend. Something like three hours on Saturday morning, the entire town goes in. It is actually a very efficient place to do politics. I would go to the garbage dump, get petitions signed, give out literature, talk to voters. Robby Mook

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. George MacDonald

One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us. Condoleezza Rice

History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life. Pawan Kalyan

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit. Ethan Zuckerman


Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. Tom Peters

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. Groucho Marx

The traditional divide between left and right, capital and labor, small state and big state, high taxes and low taxes doesn't define politics in the way it did in the past. Leo Varadkar

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. Theodore Roosevelt

Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that draws many talented people? Absolutely. Are there other ways to be involved and lead an interesting life? Of course. Eliot Spitzer

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. Mahatma Gandhi

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time. Rob McKenna

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. William J. Clinton

Politics makes strange bedfellows. Charles Dudley Warner

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. Winston Churchill

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies. Hillary Clinton

Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all. Kevin Hassett

We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics. Simon Winchester

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. Jim Hightower

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. Henry Kissinger

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. Herbert Hoover

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. Angela Davis

Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House. Gwen Ifill

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. Ray Bradbury

Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. Noam Chomsky

Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. Charles de Gaulle

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. Ani DiFranco

I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me. Mamata Banerjee

Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. Douglas Adams

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. Warren G. Harding

The paradigm of the 'Aquarian Conspiracy' sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society... The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics. Marilyn Ferguson

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. Ulrich Beck

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles de Gaulle

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. Henry Kissinger

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually. Nicolle Wallace

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. Newt Gingrich

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. Catherine the Great

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. Charles de Gaulle

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. Will Rogers

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. Fidel Castro

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. Hunter S. Thompson

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. Saul Alinsky

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

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. Paul Valery

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. Alastair Campbell

One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. Emmeline Pankhurst


If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval. Hillary Clinton

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Barry Goldwater

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. Bob Barr

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. Paul Wellstone

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? Barack Obama

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. Hubert H. Humphrey

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection. Rebecca Solnit

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. Thomas Sowell

We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. Lin-Manuel Miranda

In the period before the arrival of Mrs. Thatcher, politics had been in such low esteem. Everything was so hedged, so mealy-mouthed. Then along came this woman who seemed to have no manners at all and said exactly what she thought. Everyone's eyes were popping and their jaws were dropping, and I really enjoyed that. Tom Stoppard

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. Harry S Truman

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. Groucho Marx

When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. William J. Clinton

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. Alexis de Tocqueville

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

I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. Adlai E. Stevenson

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. Henry Adams

Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding. Gwen Ifill

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. Benjamin Disraeli

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. Bill Nye

The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. Max Weber

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. Newt Gingrich

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. Milton Friedman

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. Robin Williams

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. Vladimir Lenin

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismarck

Man is by nature a political animal. Aristotle

When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself. Albert Hammond, Jr.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet. Abraham Lincoln

I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. The more experience I have got in politics, I think the more I have allowed me to shine through. Nicola Sturgeon

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. Ronald Reagan

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. Clare Boothe Luce

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. John Stuart Mill

I talk about any number of things on my Facebook space. Politics. Current events. The writing life. The latest tempests in a teapot centering on fandom. Daily doings from my own life. My cats, for crying out loud. Flights of humorous fantasy. Books, both those I've read and those I've written. Movies. And occasionally, TV shows. Adam-Troy Castro

I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. Ann Richards

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. Kate Millett

I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives. Olivia Wilde

I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life. Marat Safin

Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other. Anna Deavere Smith

Politics is the womb in which war develops. Carl von Clausewitz

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. Reinhold Niebuhr

Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. Gerard Way

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies. Eddie Vedder

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. Emma Goldman

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people. Paul Wellstone

Under every stone lurks a politician. Aristophanes

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. Jackie Robinson

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism. Walter Cronkite

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. Naomi Klein

Politics is applesauce. Will Rogers

The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. Pankaj Mishra

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. Angela Davis

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

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

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. J. C. Watts

China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience. Sun Yat-sen

Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup. Ronaldinho

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. Alexander Hamilton

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. Ross Perot

A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist. Beau Willimon

Politics is the art of the possible. Otto von Bismarck

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. Jackie Kennedy

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty. Ben Carson

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust. Ivan Krastev

I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission. Patrick Lencioni


There's a tradition in British intellectual life of mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics, especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre. Harold Pinter

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. Emma Goldman

Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. George Will

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. Demetri Martin

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. Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. John F. Kennedy

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. W. C. Fields

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. Walt Whitman

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. George Orwell

I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job. Melania Trump

But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? Terry Savage

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson

Politics are not the task of a Christian. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith

Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems. Enda Kenny

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith

I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. Donna Brazile

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. Abraham Lincoln

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. Pope John Paul II

Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. Walter Gropius

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too. Jeremy Corbyn

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

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

For me, there is no greater sunshine in politics or in life than to have a job, security for your family, a good school place where you know your child is going, and the sense that if I put in, there will be a decent, secure retirement at the end of it all. David Cameron

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life. Billy Graham

War is the continuation of politics by other means. Carl von Clausewitz

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. Stewart Udall

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. Margaret Thatcher

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. Winston Churchill

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. Groucho Marx

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. Benazir Bhutto

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. Thurgood Marshall

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

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback. Chris Jordan

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something! Pope Francis

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention. Shirley Temple

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. B. R. Ambedkar

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. Hannah Arendt

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. Bill Maher

Politics is just show business for ugly people. Jay Leno

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. Beck

At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector. Antony Beevor

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. John F. Kennedy

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. Winston Churchill

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

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. Lady Bird Johnson

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. Arundhati Roy

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. Mao Zedong

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. Stephen Leacock

We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. John Henrik Clarke

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. Carl von Clausewitz

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. Robert Reich

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. Roger Nash Baldwin

Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. Robert Kennedy

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. Woodrow Wilson

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' Prince

I think politics is a reason why a lot of stuff doesn't get done. There's a lot of favors, and a lot of people are held back by their intentions of being re-elected or the things that they owe their party or constituents. Chance The Rapper

I have a bigger voice than Donald Trump, you know what I'm saying? Than literally anybody that works in politics. Chance The Rapper

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. Sandra Day O'Connor

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. Nancy Pelosi

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' P. J. O'Rourke

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! Theresa May

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. Ted Cruz

I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love. Sam Houston

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. William Howard Taft

Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. George Soros

My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist with Nat King Cole. My family was an explosive mixture of politics, religion and music - no wonder I turned out how I did. Grace Jones

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't. Rick Warren

In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team. Narendra Modi

I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back. Stephen Bannon

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. Zach Galifianakis

When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. Ted Turner

Politics for me started in violence. Marine Le Pen

Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties. Lincoln Steffens

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics. Sergei Lavrov

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams


Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions. Larry Hogan

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. Paul Wellstone

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? Robert Orben

I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' Ralph Nader

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results. LL Cool J

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. Nigel Farage

No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. Thomas Friedman

When the Constitution was written in 1787, there was this supposition that American politics would be above party. The people who would staff the positions in government would have the interests of the country, or at least their states and congressional districts, at heart, and so they wouldn't form permanent political parties. H. W. Brands

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. Christopher Lasch

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act. Barry Jenkins

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. George C. Wallace

I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics. Elaine Pagels

In football, as in politics, resilience pays off. George Osborne

It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. Tina Brown

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. Dario Fo

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. Oscar Levant

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. Charles Kennedy

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia. Pete Hamill

I don't have time for politics. There is a mission, and that is to save lives. Carmen Yulin Cruz

All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future. Chris Gibson

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility. Susan Estrich

Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports. Wladimir Klitschko

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics. Dennis Kucinich

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want. John Bercow

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. Denise Mina

The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. Mark Helprin

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are. Charles Dance

I've carved a different path which is not that affected by what happens in the bad side of politics. I've always surrounded myself with music and art and love and all those things - pleasures that are sort of immune from all that. Jamie Hince

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech. Ed Gillespie

It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. Darrell Issa

The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country. Dave Brat

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. Bob Ehrlich

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. Thomas E. Mann

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves. Tammy Bruce

The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy. Jil Sander

Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. A. J. Liebling

TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion. Neil Postman

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. Laura Ingraham

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. Frank Lautenberg

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. E. Franklin Frazier

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively. Jiang Zemin

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. Nelson Mandela

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. Nelson Mandela

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. Robin Williams

There might be some serious fun in politics. Hunter S. Thompson

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. Hunter S. Thompson

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. Hunter S. Thompson

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. Bill Gates

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. Robert Frost

A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! Pope Francis

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. Woodrow Wilson

In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. Marilyn Manson

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. Richard M. Nixon

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. George W. Bush

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. Benjamin Disraeli

I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. Condoleezza Rice

Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity. Charles Bukowski

I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. Dan Quayle

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Marshall McLuhan

Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. Jimmy Carter

Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. Don Rickles

The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. Mark Cuban

I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom. Nancy Pelosi

Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press. Jesse Jackson

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians. Chris Hadfield


While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics. Sam Harris

Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold. Robert Kiyosaki

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. Max Weber

Party honesty is party expediency. Grover Cleveland

Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. Grover Cleveland

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics. Michael Pollan

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now. Aung San Suu Kyi

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking. Jimmy Fallon

There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much. Cate Blanchett

You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. Michael Bloomberg

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. Douglas Coupland

I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard. Jeremy Corbyn

You can't assume anything in politics. That's why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices. Thomas P. O'Neill

It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life. Jordan Peele

I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it. Ewan McGregor

In politics, it's more fun to win than it is to lose. Phyllis Schlafly

To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. Noel Gallagher

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. Richard Stallman

Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country; let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland. Nicola Sturgeon

I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit. Nicola Sturgeon

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff. Dana Carvey

If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. Iggy Pop

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail. Mike Huckabee

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry. Bill Richardson

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it. Fabrizio Moreira

My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. Benazir Bhutto

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. Sandy Koufax

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. Bill Bradley

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. George Jean Nathan

I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future. Jackie Mason

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens. Megyn Kelly

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics. Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Taiwan politics certainly is colorful. Rebecca MacKinnon

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. Mario Puzo

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket. Sachin Tendulkar

Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas. Reza Aslan

The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left. Christopher Lasch

People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause. Andrew Cuomo

Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand. Andrew Breitbart

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right. Tony Blair

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way. N. T. Wright

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.' John Ortberg

The politics of judges is getting to be red hot. Lindsey Graham

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics. Richard Engel

Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible. James Nesbitt

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. Konrad Adenauer

Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment. David Blunkett

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics. Imran Khan

I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. Don Henley

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. Julian Bond

Good government is good politics. Richard J. Daley

The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising. Gail Collins

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics. Sharad Pawar

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes. Rick Perlstein

Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning. David Ignatius

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence. Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy? Ken Livingstone


The idea of entrepreneurship applies as much in politics, religion, society and the arts as it does in business. Geoff Mulgan

It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. Abba Eban

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. Walter Savage Landor

The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren't interested in politics and would be more interested if it's brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way. Bassem Youssef

We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. James Buchan

No matter what your age, gender, politics, nationality, social or financial standing, every single person inhabiting the planet Earth has the same reaction to him: 'Holy crap, Buzz Aldrin, you went to the moon!' Jeanne Marie Laskas

I've been in a band, so I understand the politics. Sometimes the bass player doesn't like what the guitar player is doing, and you have to sort of even that out. Ric Ocasek

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. James Wolcott

The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers. Juan Williams

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics. Hilary Duff

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. Robert Harris

Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult. Norman Finkelstein

First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics. Karen DeCrow

I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both. Ed Rendell

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience. Robert Wyatt

At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. Sean Parker

I studied politics and economics at Bristol, and people always assumed that I'd go into politics or a non-government organisation when I left. I might well do this later on. I'd love to represent a West Country seat in the House of Commons. Ben Elliot

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. Kate Millett

I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics. Vijay

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. Armstrong Williams

'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. Dick Morris

Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time. Jerry Only

Is there decency left in American politics? Byron Dorgan

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser. John Breaux

Take the time to discover how African-Americans have had a great impact on this country. In science, education, literature, art, and politics. Lynn Swann

A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done. Claudia Rankine

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. Johnny Isakson

Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do. Joan Kirner

I do not comment on politics, but I see computerization of the election process as good for stability and social harmony. Andrew Tan

I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics. Rahul Gandhi

I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart. Rahul Gandhi

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support. Kerry Healey

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did. Jimmy Durante

The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women. Atifete Jahjaga

Art has often been and continues to be considered transcendent. I see this as misguided and, in fact, a way of subverting the powerful voice art can be in global discussions about politics, economics, society, culture, religion and international relations. Aman Mojadidi

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. Martin L. Gross

Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. Joseph Crowley

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame. Meg Greenfield

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. Lord Hailsham

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. Alan Clark

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. Vera Brittain

The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures. Manning Marable

The art of politics is knowing what to do next. James P. Cannon

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously. Louis Adolphe Thiers

I never make a distinction between private life and politics - that's a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction? Marcel Ophuls

Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund - doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash. Donald Trump

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan


Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. Ronald Reagan

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. Barack Obama

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. Hunter S. Thompson

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. Stephen King

I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. Pope Francis

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. Pope Francis

Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics. Vladimir Putin

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. Woodrow Wilson

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. Hillary Clinton

When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time. Hillary Clinton

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. Christopher Hitchens

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. Richard M. Nixon

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

Half a truth is better than no politics. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Finality is not the language of politics. Benjamin Disraeli

War is the ultimate tool of politics. R. Buckminster Fuller

At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy. Bernie Sanders

Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business. will.i.am

People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom. Gary Vaynerchuk

Politics is not an exact science. Otto von Bismarck

My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. Steven Pinker

There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems. Mark Cuban

There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form. Al Gore

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. Adlai E. Stevenson

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. Hubert H. Humphrey

Any time you have a competitive situation like politics is, there are winners, and there are people who don't win, and their supporters can sometimes be very emotional. Justin Trudeau

Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well. Justin Trudeau

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum. P. J. O'Rourke

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have. Fidel Castro

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. Arthur C. Clarke

I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. Samuel L. Jackson

I wish it were simply a nightmare, but I think that any reasonable person watching American politics would come to the conclusion that a second Bush administration would in fact incorporate a more radicalized version of what we've seen in the first administration. Robert Reich

Don't get involved in the interoffice politics. On 'Suits,' it can be cheeky and fun to see Rachel and Donna being gossipy, but people get caught up in that. I think in life and in the office, it's best to stay out of the drama. Meghan Markle

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. Honore de Balzac

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure. John O'Donohue

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. Jon Bon Jovi

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right. Lysander Spooner

I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it. Nas

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics. George Soros

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. Max Weber

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? Molly Ivins

I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they're not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics. Molly Ivins

Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. Bobby Seale

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

I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics. Aung San Suu Kyi

To me, politics is a pile of tricks. Tracy Morgan

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. Emma Goldman

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. Emma Goldman

Politics are not my arena. Music is. Aretha Franklin

I don't know anything about politics. I wouldn't put too much into my prediction on politics. Norm MacDonald


Every now and then, I am reminded it's not always about politics. It's about people. Tomi Lahren

No matter what you may think about her politics or her record, Hillary Clinton understands that this is not reality television; this is reality. She understands the job of president. It involves finding solutions, not pointing fingers; and offering hope, not stoking fear. Michael Bloomberg

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth. Rush Limbaugh

Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics. Rush Limbaugh

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content. Mason Cooley

Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art. Eugene Ionesco

Until Donald Trump got to where he was, they said you'll never see a rich businessman who's never been in politics be president. I clearly was wrong about that. Jamie Dimon

We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope. Jeremy Corbyn

The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take. Trent Reznor

I never went on TV one time during the campaign. Not once. You know why? Because politics is war. General Sherman would never have gone on TV to tell everyone his plans. I'd never tip my hand to the other side. Stephen Bannon

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. Robert Dallek

You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. Thomas P. O'Neill

That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics. Thomas P. O'Neill

We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest. Viktor Orban

I'm into politics, and I love watching the heavier news magazine shows. Chelsea Handler

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. Joseph Stiglitz

A politically astute president who understood deeply the economics and politics of corporate tax reform could conceivably muscle Congress toward a reform package that made sense. Trump is not that leader. Joseph Stiglitz

I don't know where I will be in 5 weeks let alone five years. But if I am still working in politics, I hope I never lose sight of why I got involved in the first place. Sarah Huckabee Sanders

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

I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people. Kevin Costner

You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens. Jesse Ventura

In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion. Garth Brooks

Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful. Kevin Spacey

The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances. Donna Brazile

Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties. David Petraeus

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known. Donella Meadows

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble. Gabriel Iglesias

We want to be inclusive. We want to have our shareholders, our employees, our customers, whether they are Democrat, Republican, Green or Libertarian, to feel comfortable with how we're doing business. And so that tends to be apolitical. People say, 'No, no, I just simply shouldn't get involved in politics.' Reid Hoffman

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry. Iman

I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will. Nicola Sturgeon

Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it. Nicola Sturgeon

I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics. Ram Charan

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. Henry Adams

Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world. Stanley Hauerwas

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. Aneurin Bevan

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics. Paul Lynde

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next. Shailene Woodley

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to. Tucker Carlson

The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn't surprise anyone who understands power politics. It's always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up. Tucker Carlson

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell

Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future. Paul Wellstone

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. Paul Wellstone

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. Paul Wellstone

Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives. Paul Wellstone

Arizonans want us to come together, put aside politics, and solve problems. You want us to do our jobs in way that reflects the best of our state. You want us to stop and listen - something that doesn't always come naturally to people in politics. Doug Ducey

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. Wilfrid Laurier

Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man. Terry Bradshaw

For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. Bob Riley

Bad politics make for bad morals. Joseph Brodsky

Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn't contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics. Michael Gove

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. Mikhail Bakunin

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. Ralph Nader

I don't consider myself specifically political, you know? I think of working as an actor as being a human thing. The concerns I have that fall into politics are human concerns. Sean Penn

A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism. Walter Cronkite

Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney. Bob Iger

There are little games that go on in politics. Nigel Farage

As I've gotten older, I've gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It's so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair. Lauren Graham

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. Elliott Abrams

The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy. Elliott Abrams


I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare. Oliver Tambo

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete. Mark McKinnon

Due to the failure of politics, which has become a process of middle-management, art has become one of the last open spaces to question core beliefs and to design a viable future. Art becomes an open space where we can ask fundamental questions about ourselves. Antony Gormley

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics. H. Rap Brown

I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy. Kid Rock

I'm in politics to change things - if possible, for the better. I was a journalist for a long time, but I had a kind of midlife crisis, and I decided I needed to do something to get on the pitch and stop endlessly kicking over other peoples' sandcastles. Boris Johnson

When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. John Cusack

Senators should not play politics by threatening filibusters and evaluating Judge Gorsuch based on what his policy preferences are or how he might come down on a specific case that may come before the Court. Thom Tillis

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. Malcolm Turnbull

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves. Richard Gere

Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. Christopher Lasch

I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt. Anne Wojcicki

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. Judy Collins

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. J. William Fulbright

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion. Gary Johnson

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. Glenn Beck

I came from an intellectual Parisian family. My father was a watchmaker; my mother was a housewife. We discussed politics, art, sculpture - never fashion. Sonia Rykiel

The NBA is all politics. It's about who you know. Nate Robinson

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. Tony Campolo

I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics. Laura Bush

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values. Diane Abbott

You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes. Glen Campbell

I'm not a huge fan of Bruce Springsteen, and it's certainly not because of his politics. I just don't like the aesthetic. Andrew Breitbart

I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent. Andrew Breitbart

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. Tony Blair

I could really see myself in politics. Who knows? Hope Hicks

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America. Tim Scott

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. Peggy Noonan

Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. Anita Roddick

Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy. Greg Gutfeld

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law. Tom Tancredo

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. Grover Norquist

That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics. Carly Fiorina

People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. Michael Franti

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics. Arlen Specter

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. John Sununu

Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. Imelda Marcos

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

National interest is above anything else. Just because you sit in an air-conditioned room, you can say you shouldn't relate cricket and movies to politics. Ask anyone who has lost a family member to terror attacks, and you will get your answer. Gautam Gambhir

I don't know what Russell Moore's politics really are. I don't know if he is a closet liberal or if he is a conservative. Jerry Falwell, Jr.

Sometimes music isn't the way to talk politics, you know? Gary Rossington

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. Richard Flanagan

As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body. Rebecca Solnit

I'm very sad 'Life' wasn't a big hit, But it was undone by politics at NBC. It was intense. I moved my wife, and we had two children back to back. So working those hours and living abroad in L.A. was a handful. But it was a great experience. Damian Lewis

I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' Evgeny Morozov

If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business. Evgeny Morozov

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. Naomi Wolf


Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that. Michael Ignatieff

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau. Michael Ignatieff

I'm really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don't try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don't preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions. Bonnie Raitt

The BJP, undoubtedly, is a party with a mission. Spreading hatred and religious discord, indulging in state-sponsored violence and fake encounter killings, and resorting to divisive politics have been integral to this mission. Kapil Sibal

I actually came out the year that AIDS hit the front pages. So there was this mixed feeling about it - excitement that life's finally begun, but it was completely tied up with mortality and danger and politics. John Cameron Mitchell

Whatever you thought of his politics, Ronald Reagan was a great man, a courageous man. He took an assassin's bullet and joked to the doctors as they desperately worked to save his life. Christopher Buckley

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. Wendell Phillips

The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. Eldridge Cleaver

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell. Gail Collins

I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem? Karan Johar

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around. Eva Green

The first thing we need is for President Obama to finally enforce current immigration law and strengthen our borders. To take up any other agenda is bad policy for the American people and bad politics for Republicans. John Fleming

I have acquired - some would say deservedly - quite a few rivals: former Israeli politicians, some of whom at their height were stars beloved by large parts of the public. But today, they aren't in politics, and when they sit alone in their room, they say to themselves that Barak is the one who showed them out the door. Ehud Barak

I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop. Maz Jobrani

As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they've brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women. Dee Dee Myers

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians. Lucy Powell

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics, but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich. Gary Bauer

We need a leader who puts the health and well-being of the country ahead of 2016 politics. Jeff Duncan

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways, it is just the beginning. Heather Brooke

Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you. Michael Cimino

Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw. Asghar Farhadi

In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. Jean Rostand

Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. Spiro T. Agnew

The major international appeal for 'House of Cards' was kind of a surprise because it's a very American show. What we learned is that American politics is very American, but greed and corruption and all of that is very global. Ted Sarandos

It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments. James Corden

Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about. Johann Lamont

Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. Nina Easton

Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion. Pauline Hanson

I'm noticing a lot of the big bloggers who've posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers' sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it's a question of being appropriate for the audience. Jen Lancaster

I think there's no question that Michael Jackson was the foremost entertainer of his generation; perhaps of all time, arguably, taking the skills of a Sammy Davis, Jr., bringing together the street dance of African American urban culture, joining them to the politics of dance, of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly on that sphere alone. Michael Eric Dyson

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. A. N. Wilson

China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics. Kenneth Fisher

One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts. Mark Frost

Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future. John F. Kerry

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for. Dennis Kucinich

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller. Nick Clegg

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. Alphonse de Lamartine

We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization. Daphne Guinness

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not. Gunter Grass

Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians. It's inevitable that the Holocaust is part of Israeli politics. Timothy D. Snyder

The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong. Norman Finkelstein

Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics. Shirin Neshat

People feel politics isn't about their lives. David Miliband

When I say that George Eliot has long been my hero, I mean to include those aspects of her thought and temperament that have been disparaged or dismissed or ignored. She was, after all, a novelist who did not eschew politics or polemics - sometimes silently though defiantly, as in her relationship with George Henry Lewes. Cynthia Ozick

When historians of early America turned from the pursuit of past politics, they devised a category known in the academy as 'social and intellectual history.' In it, they stuffed nearly everything except politics on the assumption, which the anthropologists assured them was correct, that it would all fit together. Somehow it did not. Edmund Morgan

I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life. Terry McAuliffe

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private. Tahar Ben Jelloun

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. Dave Davies

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly. Bill Frist

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. Stephen Breyer

People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It's less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn't address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby. Neil Kinnock

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. Charles de Secondat

These new young politicians have given us the confidence to start dreaming again to believe there is a better politics, and a better future for Italy in general. Brunello Cucinelli

I don't know how many parts I've lost because a lot of the politics in California are very conservative, and I'm fairly outspoken. I always tried to get as much politics in as I could, because I do believe in class struggle, and I think that's what's left out. James Cromwell

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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. Artur Davis

I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. Park Geun-hye

Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.' Bharati Mukherjee

Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals. Wang Jianlin

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. James Ellroy

I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me. Pedro Martinez

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

Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people. Ed Miliband

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

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction. John Avlon

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. Howard Fineman

I grew up listening to my father argue politics into the night and taking trips every Saturday to the Hood River library where my mother maintained her interest in reading and encouraged the same from her sons. Dale T. Mortensen

Growing up in the Midwest, I was very close to my maternal grandmother, who, as a young widow running a small business in 1920s Kansas City, had known firsthand the old Pendergast regime and its classic combine of politics and organized crime. Roger Morris

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics. Raul Castro

The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. Neal Barnard


They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less. Matthew Green

Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. Atifete Jahjaga

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it. Mark Warner

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy. Ma Ying-jeou

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. Carl Andre

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

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. Winfield Scott Hancock

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish. Oliver St. John

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. Winston Churchill

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. Thomas Jefferson

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. Elon Musk

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. Margaret Thatcher

Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. Dwight D. Eisenhower

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. Thomas Sowell

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. Ambrose Bierce

In politics nothing is contemptible. Benjamin Disraeli

There is no gambling like politics. Benjamin Disraeli

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. R. Buckminster Fuller

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. Sandra Day O'Connor

When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. Marianne Williamson

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. Charles de Gaulle

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. Charles de Gaulle

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. P. J. O'Rourke

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. P. J. O'Rourke

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. Fidel Castro

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. Arnold H. Glasow

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. John Kenneth Galbraith

I never thought I would become an actress. I always wanted to get into politics, and I moved to Argentina and worked for the U.S. embassy for a bit. It sort of happened upon me when I was home for the holiday - acting, that is - and I stuck with it. Meghan Markle

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. Angela Merkel

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. Daniel J. Boorstin

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. Gore Vidal

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. Gore Vidal

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. Gore Vidal

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

The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. Lysander Spooner

The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. Clare Boothe Luce

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. Ted Cruz

Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it. Morrissey

I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them. Lily Tomlin

I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. Rick Warren

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. Mikhail Gorbachev

Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. Lewis Black

I went into politics on an emotional level and soon realised that emotion has nothing to do with politics. Amitabh Bachchan

I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job. Amitabh Bachchan

I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office. Chelsea Clinton

My work has gotten more political over time, but once you start exploring food, you find you're up against economics and politics and psychology and anthropology, all of these different things you have to deal with. Michael Pollan

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. John W. Gardner

We need to start talking, to each other, about the issues that matter most. Otherwise, we are just pawns in the game of politics. Tomi Lahren

In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. Dick Gregory

The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. Michael Bloomberg

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. Annie Besant

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc. Annie Besant

Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society. Eugene Ionesco

I discourage a cult of personality. Newt Gingrich

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. Barbara Bush

I follow politics very closely. I read several newspapers every day. Fernando Botero

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance. Harold MacMillan

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave. Deval Patrick

Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society. Daniel Barenboim

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Doug Larson

The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges. Benazir Bhutto

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine. Paul Wellstone

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. Leonard Bernstein

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. Ed Koch

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. Ed Koch

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. Albert Pike

This entire business of modern war crimes, as identified by the liberal wings of politics and the media, began in Iraq and has been running downhill ever since. Marcus Luttrell

A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo Rosten

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. Nate Silver

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

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. William Hague

Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. George Will

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. Sydney Pollack

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. Dick Durbin

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer. Wilbur Smith


It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them. James Bovard

When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. Imelda Marcos

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. William O. Douglas

Republicans today have given the country conservatism in the spirit of Sarah Palin, whose ignorance about the world, contempt for expertise, and raw appeals to white identity politics presaged Trump's incendiary campaign. George Packer

Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. Edward Kennedy

I don't see myself in politics at 51. I definitely want to do something else. Leo Varadkar

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. Liev Schreiber

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. William Gilbert

I have the best job in politics in Alabama. As the attorney general, I just go to work every day and think of a way to sue the Obama Administration. If you don't think that is fun, that is a full-time job. Luther Strange

There are few things in politics more annoying than the Right's utter conviction that it owns the patent on the word 'freedom' that when its leaders stand up for the rights of banks to be unregulated or capital gains to be untaxed, that it is actually and obviously standing up for human liberty, the noblest cause of them all. Thomas Frank

At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening. Jose Antonio Vargas

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics. Tony Abbott

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

The latter 1940s and early '50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation. M. Stanton Evans

There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties. Frank Luntz

I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way. Nick Clegg

Fashion is not just about trends. It's about political history. You can trace it from the ancient Romans to probably until the '80s, and you can see defining moments that were due either to revolutions or changes in politics. Daphne Guinness

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics. Terry McAuliffe

The public seldom forgive twice. Johann Kaspar Lavater

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. Jeane Kirkpatrick

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. Jacques Delors

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. Robertson Davies

The world is governed by opinion. William Ellery Channing

I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time. Isaac Brock

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. Richard Armour

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. Estelle Morris

I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. Gerhard Schroder

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't. Chester Brown

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. Bill Vaughan

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. Christy Romano

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

People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. Eleanor Clift

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals. John Avlon

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. John Avlon

I'm an independent. I'm a centrist. A new generation is arriving that has grown up with a multiplicity of choice in every aspect of their lives, and yet politics is the last place that they are told that they should be satisfied with a choice between brand A and brand B. It doesn't fit the way they think. It doesn't fit the way they live. John Avlon

A week is a long time in politics. Harold Wilson

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. Charles W. Pickering

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. Zell Miller

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? Gilbert Highet

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

Television is democracy at its ugliest. Paddy Chayefsky

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. Gary Hart

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. Meg Greenfield

A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. William Randolph

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