Politics Quotes

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.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?

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

No one wants to hear my perspective on politics, but I think honestly as you get older, you get more interested in it.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?