Politics Quotes

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

I listened to Bill Bennett and tons of other talk show hosts who talked about that and other policies and started branching out and caring about other issues in regards to politics.

And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Politics is not about money.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Politics is the art of the possible.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Gossip is easy, politics is hard.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Republican politics have been off-kilter for several years now because a large segment of the conservative base does not look back fondly on the Bush presidency.

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.