Top 100 Politics Is Quotes
#1. Because of the spin-meisters and the focus groups and the way politics is run now. It's run by polls and focus groups. So it's even more true today, I think, than it was some 40 years ago.
Bob Newhart
#2. Moderation is based on the idea that things do not fit neatly together. Politics is likely to be a competition between legitimate opposing interests. Philosophy is likely to be a tension between competing half truths. A personality is likely to be a battleground of valuable but incompatible traits.
David Brooks
#3. Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
Paolo Bacigalupi
#4. American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.
Henry Adams
#5. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Groucho Marx
#6. I think Republicans need to do a better job of reaching out to everyone in the United States. Politics is always about getting the support of the majority of our people.
Marco Rubio
#7. To this hour, the great science and duty of politics is lowered by the petty leaven of small and personal advantage ...
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
#8. Overwatch doesn't just bring together the legal and espionage genres. It merges family problems with professional ones, swirls in a major helping of murder and mayhem, and with a deft touch, reminds us why politics is-always-perso nal.
Brad Meltzer
#9. The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.
Pete Hamill
#10. 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
#11. My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.
Michael Steele
#12. Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupations of free men, and its existences is a test of freedom.
Bernard Crick
#13. Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Ricardo Montalban
#14. Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt
#15. The acid test of politics is not what you say at the hustings, but what you actually do in government.
Margaret Thatcher
#16. Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
Bernard Crick
#19. Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
Richard Lamm
#20. If there's something we want, politics shouldn't be our first resort. Politics is all taking, no making. Whatever politics provides for us will be obtained from other people. Those people won't love us.
P. J. O'Rourke
#21. There. Politics is a bartering game.
J.D. Robb
#22. Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost
#24. Politics is a very male-dominated, male-driven profession. I was not just a woman but a young woman, and I suppose you end up trying to behave in a way that you think is expected of you.
Nicola Sturgeon
#25. The 60th seed at Wimbledon gets a chance at Center Court. The 60th seed in the NCAA gets a chance to go to the Final Four. But the third seed [in presidential politics] is shut out.
Ralph Nader
#26. Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
Bob Ehrlich
#27. Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.
Jerry Rubin
#28. These various interests are well organized, command more wealth than most modern nations, and are represented in Congress with a strength far greater than is justified in any constitutional or democratic sense. (Modern politics is expensive - power follows money.)
Edward Abbey
#29. Where government is impossible, politics is impossible.
Bernard Crick
#30. Politics is a trivial diversion from the business of living.
Marty Rubin
#31. One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
#32. The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#33. Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
#34. Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
Jimmy Fallon
#35. Politics is brutal because it engages the most fundamental human impulses for affection, honor, power, and fame. Great principles and grand visions are ennobling, but at its best politics is an imperfect means to an altruistic end.
Jon Meacham
#36. My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.
Kyle Kinane
#37. Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.
John F. Kennedy
#38. I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore White
#39. Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
George Soros
#40. Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].
Mikhail Gorbachev
#41. Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.
Rush Limbaugh
#42. I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
Yehuda Amichai
#43. Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters.
Rush Limbaugh
#44. Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.
Maurice Saatchi
#45. The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and drama?ridicule and reproach?pleading and persuasion.
William Safire
#46. War is, in my divine opinion, even worse than politics." "Some say the two are the same, Your Grace." "Nonsense. War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.
Brandon Sanderson
#47. Politics is that rare sport where the amateur contest is actually more interesting than the professional.
Lawrence Lessig
#48. That is the danger we now face. And this is why the intermixing of science and politics is a bad combination, with a bad history. We must remember the history, and be certain that what we present to the world as knowledge is disinterested and honest.
Michael Crichton
#49. To say that politics is not a part of sports is not being realistic. When I run, I am more than a runner. I am a diplomat, an ambassador for my country.
Filbert Bayi
#50. One of the things that has always been my undoing in politics is my readiness to do whatever job has to be done.
Judy LaMarsh
#51. Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
David Blunkett
#52. Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
Kit Harington
#53. From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
N. T. Wright
#54. The more central problem of money in politics is something just as troubling but much harder to see: a system in which economic inequalities, inevitable in a free market economy, are transformed into political inequalities that affect both electoral and legislative outcomes.
Richard L. Hasen
#55. Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin
#56. I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Theodore Roosevelt
#57. Politics is always related to the history and genealogy.
Toba Beta
#58. It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.
Robert Kennedy
#59. Politics is just show business for ugly people.
Jay Leno
#60. The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.
Natalie Jeremijenko
#61. Without idealism, politics is reduced to a form of social accounting, the day-to-day administration of men and things. This too is something that a conservative can survive well enough. But for the Left it is a catastrophe.
Tony Judt
#62. Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election.
Olympia Snowe
#63. Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
#64. Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.
Ronald Reagan
#66. Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not.
Munia Khan
#67. Politics is a dance until the moment it becomes a war.
V.E Schwab
#68. Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.
Theresa May
#69. Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
#70. Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
#71. Whoever you are, or want to be, you may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you.
Marshall Berman
#72. Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.
Maxim Gorky
#73. Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
Charles Kennedy
#74. It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
Crystal Eastman
#75. In the world of movie personalities the distance between popularity and politics is short.
Shirley Temple
#76. To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.
Chris Bosh
#77. As long as politics is the shadow of big business, the attenuation of the shadow will not change the substance.
John Dewey
#78. War is not a means to an end, it is the end, whereas politics is merely the hiatus between wars.
Norman Finkelstein
#79. Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
Bill Bradley
#80. What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.
R. K. Laxman
#81. I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
#82. The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.
Martin Carter
#83. Politics is a slippery ground; they that wish to walk on this ground must walk with due care and courage!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#84. Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone
#85. He "wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed."
Harry S. Truman
#86. Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#87. I've gone to work, I've raised a child, and I've spent 30 years trying to better the lives of children and families. But I often return to one thing I said way back then - that politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible.
Hillary Clinton
#88. Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa
#89. Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.
Judy Woodruff
#90. If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt
and fueled even more than Hollywood by money
if that's possible.
Ben Affleck
#91. I think one of the problems when we discuss the Israel-Palestine conflict is people talk too much in terms of, 'What's your preference?,' like politics is a Chinese menu - I'll take one from column A and two from column B. That's not what politics is about.
Norman Finkelstein
#92. Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.
George V. Higgins
#93. Funny how the experience of one person could have such an impact on billions of others. Pryce wondered what that said about the way the world was run. Nothing good, she was sure of that. All politics is personal, Pryce thought. It turns out all policy is personal, too.
Ramez Naam
#94. Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Frank Moore Colby
#95. Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
Edward Brooke
#96. [Politics] is the seedbed of social enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual. Name anything bad in man, and it is precisely in the soil of political struggle that it grows with abundance.
Maxim Gorky
#97. Politics is all about dividing up the power. Washington D.C. likes to talk about spreading the wealth, but never spreading the power.
Dan Groat
#98. Politics is a lot like sex - if you want something, you have to ask for it, if they're not doing it right you've got to speak up and show them and if you still don't get what you want, then there is nothing wrong with doing it yourself.
Jennifer Beals
#99. Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand.
Richard Holbrooke
#100. Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
Ridley Scott
