Quotes About Definition Of Politics

#1. My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be.

Douglas Wilder

#2. In the class that I teach at one University, I stress that my one-word definition of politics is money. You can't name a subject matter that money doesn't touch.

Douglas Wilder

#3. The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Bruno Latour

#4. If you're a Republican who's a threat to the Democrats, of course you are a racist. That's the definition of a racist, nowadays ...

Glenn Reynolds

#5. Writing plays for me is often an act of looking at basement-level fears in terms of where they come from.

Stephen Karam

#6. The definition of terrorism is killing civilians with the intent of changing their political affiliation.

Caleb Carr

#7. A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the small handful of banks and investment companies who advertise on Fox and CNBC.

Matt Taibbi

#8. Every now and then I felt like I was Bill's doll.

Charlaine Harris

#9. Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.

Scott Adams

#10. Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

Gore Vidal

#11. The anointing puts you over, because you now belong in the Kingdom of wisdom and knowledge.

Chris Oyakhilome

#12. I shall go on in the same way, losing my temper with Ivan the coachman, falling into angry discussions, expressing my opinions tactlessly;

Leo Tolstoy

#13. Resolutely train yourself to attain peace.

Gautama Buddha

#14. My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'

David Mamet

#15. He was hungering for the fight they had never had. The one she owed him, but could never give him.

Sonali Dev

#16. The very definition of the innate hollowness of leading a political life when you end up on your nearest and dearest moments or most personal evenings with donors. That should - that should tell you all you need to know about the ramble that is politics.

Dennis Miller

#17. I believe that feminism has become a political movement that seeks to obtain unlimited rights for woman without corresponding responsibilities via the suppression of feminism.Under my definition, helping oppressed women in other countries falls outside the scope of the movement's interests.

Mike Adams

#18. The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence.

Edmund Morgan

#19. I love comedy. There's just something so great about making people laugh. And for me, too, whenever I laugh, it just makes me feel so much better just watching a great comedy.

Stefanie Scott

#20. I crossed the street. The snow felt rather good, but then I'm a monster.

Anne Rice

#21. It will be like having an extreme close-up in high definition to examine each freckle, while failing to notice whether the person is even wearing pants.

Mike Huckabee

#22. If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable.

Christopher Hitchens

#23. Perhaps the most important use of money - It saves time. Life is so short, and there's so much to do, one can't afford to waste a minute; and just think how much you waste, for instance, in walking from place to place instead of going by bus and in going by bus instead of by taxi.

W. Somerset Maugham

#24. That depends on what your definition of 'is' is.

Bill Clinton