Politics Quotes

"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.'"

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

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

"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."

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

"The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime."

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

"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."

"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."

"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!"

"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority."

"Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit."

"Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win."

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

"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."

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

"There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right."

"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."

"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."

"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is."

"In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth."

"I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things."

"I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics."

"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president."

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"I think politics come out of psychology."

"Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics."

"Social etiquette dictates that when in mixed company, one should avoid discussing politics and religion. As someone who is quite active on various social portals, I can attest to the visceral emotions that are triggered when these topics are broached!"

"The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin."

"In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense."

"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."

"I pay attention to politics and technology."

"Politics is not about power."

"An overwhelming number of economists, international civil servants, and policy-makers argue that a fragmentation of the Eurozone would cause a new depression and massive wealth destruction around the world. It would also end the period of economic integration that has characterized world politics since the end of the Cold War."

"What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics."

"Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore."

"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."

"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."

"James Goldsmith is important because he used the power of the markets to break up the cosy patrician elite that ran Britain and its industries in the 1950s and '60s. In the process, Goldsmith helped transfer power in this country away from politics and towards the markets and the financial sector."

"I see people like me, who thought someone like me couldn't be in politics, now are saying, 'Oh, wait, I don't need to take money from corporations to run. Maybe I'll run, too.'"

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

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

"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."

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

"America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts."

"I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns."