Top 62 Politics Friends Quotes
#1. Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.
Charles Bukowski
#2. Practice corporeal politics. Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar places with unfamiliar people. Make new friends and march with them.
Timothy Snyder
#3. The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
Andrew Sullivan
#4. I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Abraham Lincoln
#5. Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder.
John F. Kennedy
#6. I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
Fred Frith
#7. 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.
Kazuo Ishiguro
#8. Guns are our friends because in a country without guns, I'm what's known as "prey." All females are.
Ann Coulter
#9. 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.
Karl Rove
#10. Friends, there is no Left in American politics.
Gore Vidal
#11. There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
Alan Clark
#12. Friends, I'm angry about what's happening in politics today! Why is it wrong to ask the wealthiest people and most profitable corporations to pay their fair share?
Richard Trumka
#13. It was one thing to go into battle with friends, and another to perish alone and despised.
George R R Martin
#14. I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.
Martin Schulz
#15. In my view, leadership is the courage to take risks in defense of a position that is both legal and moral. The politician who tries to become a wise guy by becoming friends to everybody - corrupt or not - is not a leader.
Miriam Defensor Santiago
#16. If you surround yourself with the good and righteous, they can only raise you up. If you surround yourself with the others, they will drag you down into the doldrums of mediocrity, and they will keep you there, but only as long as you permit it.
Mark Glamack
#17. When my time is up," I would tell friends, "my dance card is going to be full.
George W. Bush
#18. My Subaru friends are upstanding members of the Creative Class. They also for burnt Democrats. As it turns out, Republicans in their neighborhood are about as rare as Cadillacs.
Julie Sedivy
#19. Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you
Lee Kuan Yew
#20. To make even fewer friends try talking about politics as much as you talk about yourself.
Demetri Martin
#21. I inherited half my father's friends and all his enemies
George W. Bush
#22. Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?
Walter Kirn
#23. Politics is an ongoing civil war designed to pit one against the other that would normally be friends
Johnny Flora
#24. I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.
Jacqueline Bisset
#25. As an artist, I'm really inspired by everything around me - from travel and art, to friends and family, social voices in media and politics. I get a lot of inspiration from daily life.
Cara Santana
#26. If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.
Ethan Zuckerman
#27. I didn't
I swear I didn't
get into politics to feather my nest or feather my friends' nests.
George W. Bush
#28. I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.
Jose Antonio Vargas
#29. Property should be in a general sense common, but as a general rule private ... In well-ordered states, although every man has his own property, some things he will place at the disposal of his friends, while of others he shares the use of them.
Aristotle.
#30. It is politics to please and hoodwink those
Who flatter but despise us.
Thiruvalluvar
#31. In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney
#32. Tyranny is like the electric wiring in an old house. A tyrant dies, the new tyrant takes possession, and all he has to do is drop the switch.
John Le Carre
#33. In politics, you have your word and your friends; go back on either and you're dead.
Morton Blackwell
#34. Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.
Autre Ne Veut
#35. My life in politics has taught me that the only thing more difficult than fighting against our enemies is taking questions from my friends." Amid knowing chuckles, he promised, "Nonetheless, I shall do my best.
Richard North Patterson
#36. I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.
Barbra Streisand
#37. It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends
Milan Kundera
#38. It cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#39. I suppose if we gain anything from this unsought experience it will be an appreciation for honesty- frankness on the part of our politicians, our friends, our loves, ourselves. No more liars in public places. (And the bed and the bar are, in their way, as public as the floor of Congress.)
Tim O'Brien
#40. Being a soldier [in the wars of modern power politics] was like being on a team in a sport that drew no crowds, except for the players' own parents and friends.
Dan Wakefield
#41. I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.
Norm MacDonald
#42. I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
Gautam Adani
#43. To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
David Frum
#44. You want a friend in this city? [Washington, DC.] Get a dog!
Harry Truman
#46. Every man who takes a part in politics, especially in times when parties run high, must expect to be abused; they must bear it; and their friends must learn to bear it for them.
Maria Edgeworth
#47. There's no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who'll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!
Sinclair Lewis
#48. In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
Lalu Prasad Yadav
#50. In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.
Alberto Manguel
#51. I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.
Phil Crane
#52. It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger.
Bidzina Ivanishvili
#53. Senses of humor define people, as factions, deeper rooted than religious or political opinions. When carrying out everyday tasks, opinions are rather easy to set aside, but those whom a person shares a sense of humor with are his closest friends. They are always there to make the biggest influence.
Criss Jami
#54. Power will be maintained by the groovy guy or gal who gets the most media coverage for his sleaze. Naturally, his friends in various businesses will do okay, too.
Frank Zappa
#55. I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards
#56. Books were always important. I have to thank my father, he filled my life with books. He didn't write but he always read. He was a merchant, he filled the store with cigarette smoke and his friends, all talking about books and politics. It was bad for business. He dealt in women's clothing.
Rawi Hage
#58. Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
Michael Ignatieff
#59. A lot of people are in politics to make friends, too, instead of making positive change. They're worried about getting re-elected.
Jon Runyan
#61. My liberal friends are such a bunch soft-headed, politically correct jerks ...
Jack Germond
#62. But very often in politics we have the experience called up from my father when someone was trying to help him in the campaign: I can take care of my enemies, may the Good Lord save me from my friends.
Robert Foster Bennett
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