Politics Is Dirty Quotes

#1. Compassion is not a dirty word. Compassion is not a sign of weakness. In my view, compassion in politics and in public policy is in fact a hallmark of great strength. It is a hallmark of a society which has about it a decency which speaks for itself.

Kevin Rudd

#2. politics was a necessarily dirty game of treachery and deceit.

Dave Robinson

#3. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

Anita Loos

#4. A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

Richard Reeves

#5. If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Edna Ferber

#6. You have to be a dead-eyed dirty-souled maniac to want to spend your extended life trading punches with other maniacs. Once you've seized that power, there's no getting off the merry-go-round. You fight like hell just to hold on or you get shoved off.

Scott Lynch

#7. Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.

Tom Cotton

#8. Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you.

Will Shetterly

#9. Once the cry and the cause of a generation of progressives to make America safer, fairer and cleaner, 'regulation' is now a dirty word in our politics. Even Democrats are quick to talk about cutting regulations; Republicans hate them with - how to put it? - evangelical fervor.

Jon Meacham

#10. The fear of blacks has become the dirty little secret of our political culture.

Norman Podhoretz

#11. New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous.
But there is one thing about it - once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.

John Steinbeck

#12. Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things ... My conscience is clear.

Johannes Heesters

#13. We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

Ali Suliman

#14. We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland.

Ciaran Hinds

#15. I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Richard M. Nixon

#16. the real purpose of socialism is precisely to overcome and advance beyond the predatory phase of human development

Albert Einstein

#17. We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.

Eric Liu

#18. It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

Robert Kennedy

#19. Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.

James Dobson

#20. I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty; it fights dirty.

John Mellencamp

#21. How did sex come to be thought of as dirty in the first place? God must have been a Republican.

Will Durst

#22. Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

David Baldacci

#23. There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

George Papandreou