Politics Quotes

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

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

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

In a confrontation with the politics of power, the soft center has always melted away.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Politics have no relation to morals.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

A week is a long time in politics.

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.

A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

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

I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

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

The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.

Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.

You should never ask actors about politics.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.