Politics Quotes

"I think he was absolutely right not to go to UN last week... First things first - that is, values and people here in their local communities, and remembering all politics is local, and trusting people more"

"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"

"Gossip is easy, politics is hard"

"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"

"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence"

"That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics"

"I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be"

"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed"

"The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun"

"Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics"

"The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought"

"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did"

"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team"

"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"

"In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed"

"Liberalism is Rationalism in politics"

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

"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"

"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap"

"Half a truth is better than no politics"

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

"Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity"

"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"

"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"

"Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment"

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

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

"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"

"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"

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner"

"There is no gambling like politics"

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

"The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation"

"Real politics are the possession and distribution of power"

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

"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"

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

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

"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"