Politics Quotes

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.

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

Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool.

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.

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.

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

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

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

In politics nothing is contemptible.

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

All I know is politics. Really, politics takes up most of my time; it's nonstop.

Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

If he wants their labor, let them go to work, without regard to politics.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

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

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

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.

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.

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

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

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

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

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

We can play politics, or we can reduce crime.

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

Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.