Politics Quotes

"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."

"I paid too heavy a price for perestroika."

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

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

"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."

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

"It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren."

"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."

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

"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."

"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."

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

"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."

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

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

"Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation."

"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."

"War is the continuation of politics by other means."

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

"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."

"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."

"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."

"I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy - I didn't agree with a lot of his politics - but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn't trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn't quite respect us."

"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."

"The Democrats can engage in the most reprehensible, mean-spirited, vile, vicious verbal attacks known in politics, and they get praised for it."

"The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."

"Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis."

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

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."

"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."

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

"With the Internet era and social media and politics being so out there with the lies, now you've got people denying things they're on camera doing, and then you've got people not really caring about the truth. You've got people supporting people who've done horrific things, but just don't want the other side to get any satisfaction."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual."

"From politics, it was an easy step to silence."

"I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics."

"I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics."

"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."

"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."

"Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know?"

"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."

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

"Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong."

"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."

"Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum."

"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."

"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."

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