Quotes About Politics At Work

#1. The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

Ronald Reagan

#2. If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#3. Sometimes acting and politics make a very bad combination. I think that sometimes people take me less seriously in my work for the UN because I am an actor.

Angelina Jolie

#4. When you work in the White House you talk to the White House staff all day, so you're talking to the guy who handles the congressional liaison and the guy who's handling domestic politics and the guy who's handling the American economy and so forth.

Elliott Abrams

#5. Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.

Justin Trudeau

#6. I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

Hillary Clinton

#7. These are the rules of big business ... Get a monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all business is politics ...

Frederic C. Howe

#8. The Republican Party under Genghis Bush did the devil's work. Bar the sainted Ron Paul, not a dog of a Republican lifted his leg in protest of the unjust war on Iraq.

Ilana Mercer

#9. End of work arguments became increasingly popular in the late seventies and early eighties, as radical thinkers pondered what would happen to traditional working-class struggle once there was no longer a working class. (The answer: it would turn into identity politics.)

David Graeber

#10. My mother saw nothing inconsistent in her traditional desire to look after her husband and children and her radical politics. She began her civil rights work before most people had ever heard the word 'feminism,' and in those early years, she was focused on racial justice.

Ezekiel Emanuel

#11. He inherited some good instincts from his Quaker forebearers, but by diligent hard work, he overcame them.

James Reston Jr.

#12. Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Thomas Szasz

#13. The people have the power to redeem the work of fools. Upon the meek the graces shower, it's decreed the people rule.

Patti Smith

#14. What is invaluable about Angela Davis' work is that she does not limit her politics to issues removed from broader social considerations, but connects every aspect of her scholarship and public interventions to what the contours of a truly democratic society might look like.

Henry Giroux

#15. When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature.

Claire Tomalin

#16. She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life.

John Le Carre

#17. I don't talk politics and I don't talk philosophy or anything like that, but if you look at my work, you might get an expression of me as a person.

Al Pacino

#18. I still have that new senator smell.

Cory Booker

#19. In poor countries, officials receive explicit bribes; in D.C. they get the sophisticated, implicit, unspoken promise to work for large corporations

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. For a number of people, church attendance seems to be primarily a social affair, the act of meeting other people outside of the pressures of work. For others it is pure business/politics. I get it. It's important to have access to a community like the one a church provides.

Gudjon Bergmann

#21. Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit or moral dishonesty is the oil without which the machinery would not work.

Woodrow Wyatt

#22. Politics doesn't work. Look at the parts of America where government has had the most power, where government has spent the most money. Look at the housing projects we've got the poor people in.

P. J. O'Rourke

#23. After graduating from college I worked at a variety of jobs, from banking to politics. I enjoyed whatever I was doing at the time but I didn't love my work.

Joe Flanigan

#24. My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#25. The world must learn to work together, or finally it will not work at all.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#26. If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid.

Tina Fey

#27. There is a pressing need to integrate the study of international economics with the study of international politics to deepen our comprehension of the forces at work in the world.

Robert Gilpin

#28. I always wanted to work at 'Take A Break' magazine, you know, just to inject a little bit of politics into their stories. I applied for a job there after I'd done my law degree and didn't even get an interview. I only wrote 'Garnethill' because I didn't get that job!

Denise Mina

#29. People are naturally hardworking but will stop working hard at anything if they learn from experience that their effort makes no difference.

Deborah Stone

#30. Consisting mostly of recirculating scrapped metals, 80% of all the metals that have ever been mined are still at work.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#31. It's (Politics) rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But it's the only sport for grownups.

Robert A. Heinlein

#32. I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it.

Hunter S. Thompson

#33. At a conservative estimate, there are probably a million men and women in their twenties and thirties who would happily work long hours doing what most needs to be done, if they were paid something for it.

Philip Slater

#34. There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics.

Norman Foster

#35. If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Michael Nutter

#36. Employee participation programs and employee ownership are important efforts to deal with powerlessness at work.

Daniel Yankelovich

#37. Progressive feminists have shown nothing but the most reflexive, regressive contempt for women on the other side of the ideological aisle. It doesn't matter if you're a conservative stay at home mom, work at home mom, or work outside the home mom. If you're Right, the Left is gonna hate.

Michelle Malkin

#38. Overwork has long been cast as a choice, and a positive one borne out of love at that. But the truth is that for so many, there is no choice.

Miya Tokumitsu

#39. I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave.

Stephen Colbert

#40. The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#41. I never was interested in politics. I'm quite unable to work up any kind of belligerent feeling. Just as I'm about to feel belligerent about some country I meet a decent sort of chap. We go out together and lose any fighting thoughts or feelings.

P.G. Wodehouse

#42. 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

#43. One presidential advisor to another: If the world made sense, we'd all have to find honest work.

Tom Clancy

#44. NGOs have a complicated space in neoliberal politics. They are supposed to mop up the anger. Even when they are doing good work, they are supposed to maintain the status quo. They are the missionaries of the corporate world.

Arundhati Roy

#45. The attempt to divide art and politics is a bourgeois which says good poetry, art, cannot be political, but since everything is ... political, even an artist or work that claims not to have any politics is making a political statement by that act.

Amiri Baraka

#46. The earthquake cannot be subpoenaed. The typhoon will not bend under indictment. They sent the killer of Prince Jones back to his work, because he was not a killer at all. He was a force of nature, the helpless agent of our world's physical laws.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#47. Don't fall into the trap of thinking about politics in your workplace too much. Just work hard, be cheerful, ignore distractions.

Mindy Kaling

#48. 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

#49. I don't care what your politics are, I would wager that if you asked any American woman which administration would she have most liked to work for as social secretary, she would pick Jacqueline Kennedy's White House as the place to be.

Letitia Baldrige

#50. In fact, corporations are the infants of our society - they know very little except how to grow (though they're very good at that), and they howl when you set limits. Socializing them is the work of politics. It's about time we took it up again.

Bill McKibben

#51. Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist.

Jill Douglas

#52. I love politics, but I wouldn't want to be involved in it. Too little money, too much work!

Dennis Quaid

#53. No politics, Murphy," Eve chided with a wag of her finger. "You're here to do a job." "Work." His furry mouth drooped. "How depressing. I'm a god. I should be having fun." "How about causing mischief?" His bearing straightened. "I'm good at doing that.

Eve Langlais

#54. The body of work I create combines traditional storylines and postmodern narrative strategies to approach themes such as belonging, identity politics and conflict, as well as the push towards - and resistance against - modernization.

Aman Mojadidi

#55. The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

Barack Obama

#56. I'm not really much into politics, because it's rarely discussed in my line of work.

Tracy Morgan

#57. Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people's stuff.

George Carlin

#58. 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

#59. Politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Roseanne Barr

#60. People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#61. Rooting in work is crucial to any accomplishment. Rooting in mere enthusiasm will in the long run force illusory measures to keep the fires of empty enthusiasm going. And this makes politics and politicians.

Wilhelm Reich

#62. He was not interested in what they were doing, not any of it - it was both ugly and abstract, a continuous manipulation of people devoid of any of the tangible rewards that so much work had. That's politics....

Kim Stanley Robinson

#63. If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

Tommy Lee Jones

#64. Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.

Steven Kassels

#65. [M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

Ann Coulter

#66. You have to have something in your life that's more important than the work. People don't really like to admit that. I think that you have to find something else. I don't know what it is. Is it yoga or God or politics? For me it's just family.

Kevin Bacon

#67. Vanity asks, is it popular? Politics ask, will it work? But conscience and morality ask, is it right?

Martin Luther King Jr.

#68. We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.

Marcus Garvey

#69. Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.

Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

#70. A mother was thinking of how to keep her naughty child in line she tried using the boogey man it didn't work ... she thought and thought then said "the Politician is going to get you" and he was never naughty again

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#71. Truth brought to public light recruits the best of us to work for change. On the other hand, even the best-intentioned "noble lie" ultimately discredits the finest of causes.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#72. Leaders of all systems (Capitalism, Communism, etc.) in History claimed to serve the people. All Systems would work if the leaders meant it!

Francis Mont

#73. 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

#74. Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It's because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time.

George Carlin

#75. I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#76. Too often our leaders cannot work for the greater good because they acknowledge no good greater than politics. But if that's truly our prime directive and highest imperative, God help us all.

Leonard Pitts

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

Hillary Clinton

#78. War, like politics, was men's work, and women were supposed to be among its victims, not its perpetrators. Women's loyalty was assumed, regarded as a prime attribute of femininity itself,

Karen Abbott