Politics Quotes
Quotes about Politics
55 quotes
- “Artificially to incite hatred is not only supererogatory in politics and foreign relations, it is also positively harmfu...” — Miklós Bánffy
- “The fact that a reactionary can sometimes be right is a little less recognized that the fact that a liberal can be. . . ...” — Joseph Gies
- “I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.” — Charlie Rose
- “One thing in common between politics and marketing is that your greatest strength can often be your greatest weakness.” — Joel Benenson
- “Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.” — Richard Armour
- “In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.” — Pierre Elliott Trudeau
- “The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.” — Milo Yiannopoulos
- “As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?” — Lord Trent
- “I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money.” — Arthur Godfrey
- “The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.” — Konrad Adenauer
- “The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.” — Eleanor Holmes Norton
- “— Why did blondes vote for Clinton? — They didn't know how to read and thought she can make their life hilarious!” — Bryanna Reid
- “I don't hate Republicans as individuals. But I hate what the Republicans are doing to this country. I really do.” — Howard Dean
- “There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.” — Alexander Douglas-home
- “It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.” — Khaleda Zia
- “We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.” — William Deresiewicz
- “we see that an aspect of the work of the masses consists in investigating and opening up the question of names” — Sylvain Lazarus
- “Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.” — Franklin P. Adams
- “Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.” — Thurgood Marshall
- “Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.” — Ivan Krastev
- “It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.” — Jeff Fisher
- “A politician is a person who can make waves and then make you think he's the only one who can save the ship.” — Ivern Ball
- “The prerequisites for being in the diplomatic corps are the ability to handle protocol alcohol and Geritol.” — Wallace Rowling
- “When they ask me to become president of the United States I'm going to say, "Except for Washington D.C.” — Len Deighton
- “Such is the psychology of crowds that the majority will follow whoever appeared to be in power...” — Miklós Bánffy
- “In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.” — Timothy Snyder
- “Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.” — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
- “Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.” — E. L. Doctorow
- “Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.” — John Harrington
- “...it is impossible to reason people out of affiliations they have not been reasoned into.” — George Will
- “I'm beginning to wonder when the Doomsday Clock will be reset to five minutes before 1939?” — Chris Penningroth
- “You’re . . . their absolute fantasy. Of course I’m jealous. You’re their fantasy and mine.” — Katy Evans
- “We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.” — Tom Daschle
- “Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.” — James Macgregor Burns
- “We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.” — Kermit Roosevelt Iii
- “Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don't want it back.” — Robert A. Taft
- “We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it.” — Jean-claude Juncker
- “I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.” — Horace Silver
- “Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.” — Gary Gutting
- “I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interests.” — Aneurin Bevan
- “They were free to be what they wanted to be, and what they wanted to be was nothing.” — Michael Davidow
- “The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.” — Elliott Abrams
- “Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.” — H. Rap Brown
- “If people have to choose between freedom and sandwiches they will take sandwiches.” — Lord Boyd-orr
- “Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.” — Arnold A. Rogow
- “There are two political truisms: Old people vote and Republicans eat their young.” — Eddie Whitlock
- “A dictatorship is a country where they have taken the politics out of politics.” — Sam Himmel
- “Start with an honest analysis of why you are in opposition, not in government.” — Philip Gould
- “To hold power in this world is to know things that others do not want to know.” — Michael Davidow
- “Those who treat with Norilendra Queen must be accomplished serpent handlers.” — J.r. Hardesty