Politics Who Quotes

#1. I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

Carly Fiorina

#2. I don't have time to put up with the politics. Who's a Democrat? Who's a Republican? Who's liberal? Who's conservative? Man, can my daughter just go to a school and not get killed? Can these people get a good job? That's what I'm concerned about.

Charles Barkley

#3. Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

Max Weber

#4. I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.

Wendy Davis

#5. I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.

Terry McAuliffe

#6. I have friends in politics who really put the friendship to the test through their behavior.

Martin Schulz

#7. And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

Marco Rubio

#8. Scientists who do deny their politics - who claim to be objective and unemotional about gender while living in a world where even boats and automobiles are identified by sex - are fooling both themselves and the public at large.

Anne Fausto-Sterling

#9. Politics works on the principle that an idiot who knows more idiots is an intelligent.

Thiruman Archunan

#10. Fear is the main factor in Arab politics ... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

Moshe Sharett

#11. 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

#12. Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.

James Connolly

#13. I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life.

Dennis Miller

#14. 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

#15. An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Adlai E. Stevenson

#16. Politics does not concern itself who should rule us. It is about what kind of rule people should have.

Periyar E.V. Ramasamy

#17. Nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

Susan Sontag

#18. A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.

William S. Burroughs

#19. I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. The more experience I have got in politics, I think the more I have allowed me to shine through.

Nicola Sturgeon

#20. Daddy, I don't like military parades. I never want to be like those people who march rank and file to music - they were given brains by mistake.

Corinne Maier

#21. In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.

Michael Crichton

#22. 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

#23. Latimer Springfield was a rather cheerless, oldish young man, who went into politics somewhat in the spirit in which other people might go into half-mourning.

Saki

#24. "Freedom" in capitalist countries exists only for those who possess money and who consequently hold power.

Nikita Khrushchev

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. What does it matter who is ruler of a realm that no longer exists?

Krishna Udayasankar

#28. 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

#29. Those who believe that politics and religion do not mix, understand neither.

Albert Einstein

#30. Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.

David Weinberger

#31. Jean-Marie Le Pen is a holocaust denier who was convicted and fined for dismissing Nazi concentration camps as a, quote, "Detail in History." But he kept running this anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic, populist unapologetic xenophobic far right party in French politics.

Rachel Maddow

#32. Those who treat with Norilendra Queen must be accomplished serpent handlers.

J.R. Hardesty

#33. I was aggressively nonpolitical. I believed that people who make a fuss about politics do so because their heads are too empty to think about more important things. So I felt nothing but impatient contempt for Osborne's Jimmy Porter and the rest of the heroes of social protest.

Colin Wilson

#34. The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.

John Cornyn

#35. That's what happens when you crowd enough folks into the same sandbox: eventually they're gonna start throwing a fit over who gets what part to play with.

Jacob D. Lochner

#36. For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

Max Beerbohm

#37. One of the hallmarks of our politics now is that we tend to elect those who can campaign over those who can lead;

Ethan Canin

#38. Big Business and Politics are twins, they are the monsters who kill everything, corrupt everything.

Anais Nin

#39. The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.

Rebecca West

#40. Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

Nandan Nilekani

#41. Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Janet Flanner

#42. In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

Sarah Palin

#43. Certainly, I approve of political opinions, but there are people who do not know where to stop.

Victor Hugo

#44. The political tactics of division and slander are not our values. They are corrupting influences on religion and politics, and those who practice them in the name of religion or in the name of the Republican Party or in the name of America shame our faith, our party and our country.

John McCain

#45. When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.

Cory Booker

#46. Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

#47. Who would want to buy a good car when you can buy an American car?

Bob Packwood

#48. One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

Elizabeth Edwards

#49. What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres.

George Eliot

#50. A good businessman knows how to make a profit. An engineer makes sure it runs well. We need more leaders who are task oriented.

Phil Mitchell

#51. Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

B.R. Ambedkar

#52. I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.

Karl Rove

#53. Research has found that in most companies managers who get promoted rapidly spend most of their time networking and politicking, while their more effective colleagues spent their time building their units and developing their people.

Alan G. Robinson

#54. I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan.

Rebel Wilson

#55. It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

Frank Dobson

#56. Feminist politics aims to end domination, to free us to be who we are - to live lives where we love justice, where we can live in peace. Feminism is for everybody.

Bell Hooks

#57. [My son] Casey died for a country which cares more about who will be the next American Idol than how many people will be killed in the next few months while Democrats and Republicans play politics with human lives.

Cindy Sheehan

#58. I have no problem playing anyone who has different politics than me. In fact, I don't take that into consideration at all. You have to find something sympathetic in a man. It's that common ground you need to connect with someone.

Leonardo DiCaprio

#59. Watergate is not the sort of issue that changes the vote. I don't know anyone who has changed their vote because of it.

Bob Woodward

#60. A child who does not think about what happens around him and is content with living without wondering whether he lives honestly is like a man who lives from a scoundrel's work and is on the road to being a scoundrel.

Jose Marti

#61. The only real radicalism in our time will come as it always has - from people who insist on thinking for themselves and who reject party-mindedness.

Christopher Hitchens

#62. Economy is the bone, politics is the flesh,
watch who they beat and who they eat.

Marge Piercy

#63. Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Mark Twain

#64. A good man who did a bad thing.

Mary Matalin

#65. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Toby dislikes politics-that some of the people who car most about politics seem to have the least compassion for ordinary human beings.

Michelle Cooper

#66. I felt like the Islamic scholar Muhammad Abduh (1849-1905), who said on his return from a trip to Europe to his homeland Egypt 'I saw no Muslims in Europe but I saw a lot of Islam,' and of his homeland 'There are a lot of Muslims here but no Islam.

Imran Khan

#67. We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

Hillary Clinton

#68. Who controls the words controls your thoughts.

Heather Marsh

#69. It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Milan Kundera

#70. For those of us who question, your whole life becomes a question. Do you then reach some level of understanding, and then it's static? I don't think so" (age twenty-two, unlabeled)

Lisa Diamond

#71. Anyone who knows me knows that I don't know anything about politics. Every time I go to Washington, I feel like I'm in Legally Blonde.

Jason Wu

#72. As the prevailing voices in the public spotlight are predominantly men, stepping into the spotlight with the truth of who you are as a woman is political change.

Tabby Biddle

#73. Since when do politics affect a mammals ability to sustain a flame? That aside, who says a burning mouse can't run a distance of twelve feet?

David Sedaris

#74. Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

Tony Abbott

#75. Posters go up in the market, on tree trunks in the Place Chateaubriand. Voluntary surrender of firearms. Anyone who does not cooperate will be shot.

Anthony Doerr

#76. Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.

Paul Kagame

#77. The day I leave, you won't know how to pronounce my name. You could care less about me, and I should be dead and buried because there's not one media that will come and remember who Joe Arpaio is. That's the way it is in politics.

Joe Arpaio

#78. It is so hard for musicians when they step into acting is they're not coming in as a blank slate, they're coming in with a real set idea of who they are, where they're coming from, what their politics are, what their tastes are.

Shirley Manson

#79. Anyone who (dis)likes G. W. Bush, but (dis)likes B. H. Obama, is either completely delusional or a complete idiot.

Michel Templet

#80. In all ages the people have honored those who dishonored them. They have worshiped their destroyers; they have canonized the most gigantic liars, and buried the great thieves in marble and gold. Under the loftiest monuments sleeps the dust of murder.

Robert G. Ingersoll

#81. Barack Obama is an even worse president than George W. Bush, because an evil bastard who knows what he's doing is far more dangerous than an evil bastard who doesn't have a clue.

Michel Templet

#82. I already see what kind of man he is, this Valentin. The sort who will adduce an array of liberal reasons for voting for a conservative.

Momus

#83. It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, Listen. I'm with you on most of this, but before we continue, I need to know who you voted for in the last election.

David Sedaris

#84. If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#85. The interesting artists I know are the ones doing political work. The most interesting people I know are the people who care about politics.

Nell Zink

#86. People who are wise, good, smart, skillful, or hardworking don't need politics, they have jobs.

P. J. O'Rourke

#87. A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

#88. Sometimes people say I'm a political comedian, which, actually I'm not. I'm a comedian who sometimes discusses politics, culture - again, the word 'politics' to me is just life.

Janeane Garofalo

#89. This is a basic function of Congress to keep the government running. And so, what we ought not to do is play politics with those who have been affected by disasters.

David Plouffe

#90. I have learned that one should say "Peace!" to those who shout their hatred for one's being and presence or at one's passage.

Tariq Ramadan

#91. I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent

Antonio Gramsci

#92. Politicians are like bad horsemen who are so preoccupied with staying in the saddle that they can't bother about where they're going.

Joseph Alois Schumpeter

#93. It's often said that those who are unduly bothered by gays are latent homosexuals. Isn't it possible that people obsessed with racism are themselves racist.

Ann Coulter

#94. You know your vote doesn't count, but you go through the motions, because it's been drummed into your head that you might be the one person who makes a difference.

Marshall Karp

#95. It was Bill Clinton who once pithily captured the contrast between the two parties when it came to selecting a presidential standard-bearer: Democrats want to fall in love; Republicans just fall in line.

Mark Halperin

#96. I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don't vote for men who yell.

Gail Collins

#97. There's so many politicians who have given politics a pretty poor name ... their actions have been demonstrated to be part of their over-enthusiasm to get reelected.

Andrew Forrest

#98. I've never met a politician who didn't deserve to be tossed into a pit full of Kallin, Beranabus grunts.

Darren Shan

#99. What [Sarah] Palin so beguilingly represented ... was a form of female power that was utterly digestible to those who had no intellectual or political use for actual women: feminism without the feminists.

Rebecca Traister

#100. For a short while she considered the idea of orchestral courtesy. Certainly one should avoid giving political offence: German orchestras, of course, used to be careful about playing Wagner abroad, at least in some countries, choosing instead German composers who were somewhat more ... apologetic.

Alexander McCall Smith