Politics Is Theater Quotes

#1. 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

#2. ...the deliberate application of the techniques of theater to politics, religion, education, literature, commerce, warfare, crime, everything, has converted them into branches of show business, where the overriding objective is getting and satisfying an audience.

Neal Gabler

#3. We have only one way to be born and many ways to die.

Carolina Maria De Jesus

#4. I discovered that night (in his college's student politics) that an audience has a feel to it, and, in the parlance of the theater, that audience and I were together.

Ronald Reagan

#5. You never see the entire script of political theater until long after the last scene has been acted out.

Gary Hopkins

#6. One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#7. I've been in entertainment, politics, business, business coaching, public affairs, documentaries, programming, news, theater. So, there aren't many things I see that I haven't seen something like that before.

Roger Ailes

#8. Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

Joseph Wood Krutch

#9. Once torched by truth, Swede wrote years later, a little thing like faith is easy.

Leif Enger

#10. Community is where humility and glory touch.

Henri Nouwen

#11. In Elizabethan England or classical Athens ... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience.

Diane Paulus

#12. To a man utterly without a sense of belonging, mere life is all that matters. It is the only reality in an eternity of nothingness, and he clings to it with shameless despair.

Eric Hoffer

#13. If the Obama administration responds with an even harsher hand against me, they can be assured that they'll soon find themselves facing an equally harsh public response.

Edward Snowden

#14. You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.

Michael Bloomberg

#15. Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

#16. Audiences can get their politics elsewhere. They go to the theater to forget.

Jack Warner

#17. The politics of the exile are fever,
revenge, daydream,
theater of the aging convalescent.
You wait in the wings and rehearse.
You wait and wait.

Marge Piercy

#18. Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.

Roger Stone

#19. Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back ... play for her.

Mia Hamm