Politics Quotes

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.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker.

When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

I'm interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don't watch politics for sport.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.