Politics Quotes

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

"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."

"I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing."

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

"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."

"When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality."

"The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics."

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

"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."

"I've always viewed politics the following way: if you do a good job at the job you're doing, you'll have opportunities to do other things in the future. Maybe things you never envisioned."

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

"I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them."

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

"And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics."

"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole."

"One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state."

"If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots."

"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."

"So much of the time, in politics, we try to come up with these clever turns of phrase, slogans or messages, but what the public really wants is just the simple facts."

"In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time."

"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."

"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."

"I've studied documentarians extensively to come up with my own in-house style. I'm a student of Michael Moore's films, of Eisenstein, Riefenstahl. Leave the politics aside, you have to learn from those past masters on how they were trying to communicate their ideas."

"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."

"When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution."

"As Mike Tyson says, everybody has a plan until they get hit in the mouth. The one thing we know about American presidential politics is you're going to get hit in the mouth."

"I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter."

"Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am."

"Thanks to the great Juche idea and Songun politics of the Workers' Party of Korea and the devoted struggle of our service personnel and other people who are unfailingly loyal to the Party, proud victories have been achieved in socialist construction and lasting foundations for accomplishing the cause of the Juche revolution have been laid."

"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."

"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."

"Politics ruins the character."

"Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times."

"The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs."

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

"Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement."

"I've always been interested in politics and current factors and I think it's so important for young people to be interested in politics because, essentially, the government are the ones making the decisions."

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"

"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."

"The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is."

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

"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."

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

"Politics is the womb in which war develops."

"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."

"Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?"

"We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people's ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants."

"People don't want to believe they have to speak like Obama or Clinton to participate meaningfully in politics, because most of us don't speak like Obama or Clinton."

"The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion."

"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."