Top 100 Politics Is Quotes
#1. Politics works on the principle that an idiot who knows more idiots is an intelligent.
Thiruman Archunan
#2. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.
Alex Ebert
#3. Fear is the main factor in Arab politics ... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.
Moshe Sharett
#4. In elections in Iceland, I have always been an abstainer. It seems like politics is such a small bundle of self-important people, who don't have much to do with things I'm interested in.
Bjork
#5. Where thought is free in its range, we need never fear to hazard what is good in itself.
Thomas Jefferson
#6. If you abandon the political arena, somebody is going to be there. Corporations aren't going to go home and join the PTA. They are going to run things.
Noam Chomsky
#7. Politics itself is not sacred any more.
Donald Tusk
#8. Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, I'm here, pay attention to me
Harvey Milk
#9. The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
George Will
#10. Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.
Robert Harris
#11. I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
Mamata Banerjee
#12. The recent death of Gene McCarthy reminded me of a lesson I spent a long, long time unlearning, so now I have to re-learn it. It's about political courage and heroes, and when a country is desperate for leadership. There are times when regular politics will not do, and this is one of those times.
Molly Ivins
#13. If a person, in a position of authority, wants someone to believe a lie, usually all they have to do is tell it to them. If they want someone to believe a ridiculous lie, all they have to do is tell it to them enough.
Derek R. Audette
#14. The duty of the people is to tend to their own affairs.
The duty of government is to help them do it.
This is the pasta of politics.
The inspired leader, the true prince, no matter how great, can only be sauce upon the pasta.
Bombolini
Robert Crichton
#15. When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover
#16. Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.
Will Rogers
#17. If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.
Mona Sahlin
#18. Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.
Joseph Goebbels
#19. All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a good politician signifies no more but one who is dexterous at such calculations.
John Arbuthnot
#20. An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai E. Stevenson
#21. That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.
Bill Clinton
#22. 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
#23. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.
Ogwo David Emenike
#24. Until you realize how easily it is for your mind to be manipulated, you remain the puppet of someone else's game.
Evita Ochel
#25. L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.
Janet Fitch
#26. A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to be happy is an active exercise of virtue and a complete employment of it.
Aristotle.
#27. The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.
Lord Hailsham
#28. It is not my intention to explain Turkey, its culture and its problems. My literature has a universal concern: I want to bring people and their emotions closer to my readers, not explain Turkish politics.
Orhan Pamuk
#29. A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
#30. Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.
Chris Rock
#31. A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.
James Gibbons
#32. When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.
Hillary Clinton
#33. It is obvious to you that the struggle will be an unequal one, but I shall make it - I shall make it as long as I have an ounce of strength left in me, or any life left in me.
Emmeline Pankhurst
#34. In a time of polarized politics there's one thing that more than ninety percent of Americans agree on, that our government is broken, and broken because of the money in politics.
Lawrence Lessig
#35. If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.
Mark Twain
#36. Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Ann Richards
#37. Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
Zygmunt Bauman
#38. If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.
Neil Postman
#39. Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.
Trevanian
#40. Politics does not concern itself who should rule us. It is about what kind of rule people should have.
Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
#41. Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
Meg Greenfield
#42. A pure democracy is generally a very bad government, It is often the most tyrannical government on earth; for a multitude is often rash, and will not hear reason.
Noah Webster
#43. Fashion is born by small facts, trends, or even politics, never by trying to make little pleats and furbelows, by trinkets, by clothes easy to copy, or by the shortening or lengthening of a skirt.
Elsa Schiaparelli
#45. Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.
Walter Reuther
#48. In his twilight years Hmaing became a supporter of leftist politics while remaining a devout Buddhist. It is open to question how much he actually absorbed of the Marxist socialist ideologies embraced by many of his young disciples. Khitsan
Suu Kyi, Aung San
#50. There is a place in America for diversity of views and opinions. I may cook my gumbo differently from you, but that does not make mine better. I may just use different ingredients. Politics has gotten so spicy, and we need to cool it down some. We may find that your recipe for gumbo is just as good.
Donna Brazile
#51. Marijuana is a very dangerous drug. Some people smoke it just once and go directly into politics.
Barry Crimmins
#52. I'm Nancy Pelosi, but my grandchildren call me Mimi. For me, politics is an extension of my role as a mother and a grandmother. For the Democratic women of the House, our work is not about the next election, but rather the next generation.
Nancy Pelosi
#53. In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.
Thomas Sowell
#54. As a comedian, I think we all look for those areas where the truth diverts from what people are saying. That's why politics is such a rich area for us, because politicians make promises, and they don't keep them, and when we point out the difference, we get the laugh.
Bill Maher
#55. We must restore faith in politics. Reform of the House of Lords is only one part of the answer, but it is a vital one.
Charles Kennedy
#56. The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Hunter S. Thompson
#57. The secret of politics is to care about success, but not too much.
Kenneth Minogue
#58. Freedom, democracy, and socialism can only ever exist together; it is impossible to have any one without the other two.
Michel Templet
#59. Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.
Gertrude Stein
#60. The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
Eric Alterman
#61. It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.
Nic Fields
#62. Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
George Osborne
#63. He cleared his throat. "One good thing about the range, Starling, is there's no politics out there." "No?" "You were right to secure that garage up at Baltimore there. You worried about the TV?
Thomas Harris
#65. Democracy is fine in politics. It should stay there, and we need more of it. But its political virture is no reason to practice it in the garden.
Allen Lacy
#67. [M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum, supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements both royal and political, which is to say, popular and representative.
Patrick Collinson
#68. Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.
Jeff Greenfield
#69. There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong
#70. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness ... but only when you pay your taxes? That means your freedom is rented, leased, & not unalienable.
Steve Maraboli
#71. Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.
Terry Pratchett
#72. The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
Kim Dotcom
#73. Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.
Pope Francis
#74. I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.
Jane Seymour
#75. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.
Christopher Hitchens
#76. Behind every effect there is a cause. You can never eliminate an effect without first understanding its cause.
Suzy Kassem
#77. But who is to decide who truly fears the Lord? The magistrate has no power to enforce religious demands. The laws of the First Table of the Ten Commandments are not regulations for a civil society or a political order. They belong to the realm of religion, not politics.
Roger Williams
#79. I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.
Natalie Jeremijenko
#80. Even to an outsider like myself, not only in the theatre was such disunity evident, but in much else in government Spain. Alvarez del Vayo, Socialist Minister of Foreign Affairs, once asked, Why is it Spain's people are so great, but her leaders so small?
Langston Hughes
#81. If a man be the enemy of another from mistake and prejudice, as in the case of religious opinions, and sometimes in politics, that man is different to an enemy at heart with a criminal intention; and it is incumbent upon as, and it contributes also to our own tranquillity, that we
Thomas Paine
#82. I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
Joan Cusack
#83. The "social justice" movement is not at all about social justice, but about relentlessly bullying anyone who does not subscribe to their Stalinist ideology.
Joshua Goldberg
#84. It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.
Charles Edison
#85. So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.
Marianne Williamson
#86. The right way to requite evil, according to Jesus, is not to resist it. This saying of Christ removes the Church from the sphere of politics and law.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#87. Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#88. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Paul Wellstone
#89. What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.
Tom Hodgkinson
#90. It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
Richard M. Nixon
#92. [D]id you really expect fairness on the environmental issue? For a swathe of reporters, this is not a matter of empirical reporting; it's a matter of faith. Bush cannot be pro-environment because he's Bush.
Andrew Sullivan
#93. The only just government is the government that serves its citizens, not itself.
Timothy M. Dolan
#94. I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.
Drew Brees
#95. The wholesale corruption of social relationships, even the most intimate, is an essential part of Shakespeare's chilling exposure of authoritarian politics.
William Shakespeare
#97. Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld
#98. All I've ever asked of fate is to one day be rich enough that my commie politics could be denounced as hypocritical.
Charles Demers
#99. Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
Edi Rama
#100. Did what people will do in politics, or on the sea when the wind is against them, - I tacked.
Alexandre Dumas
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