Politics Quotes

Politics is not about power.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

Politics disgusts me.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Politics ruins the character.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It's really above and beyond American politics.

People like to do politics with me, and they like to do business.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me, 90 cents.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

My belief is the majority of people in politics are just interested in pursuing this career in politics, and doing what's necessary to get themselves re-elected. And if that happens to coincide with the public good, great. But if it doesn't, the public good loses out.

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I see it all the time in politics. If a candidate gets caught in a lie, he quickly tries to change the subject by throwing more mud at his opponent. The mud keeps flying until some of the slanderous material sticks.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.