Quotes About Politics

#1. Crime does not pay as well as politics.

Alfred Newman

#2. What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record.

Peter Hain

#3. But being in the closet uniquely assisted me in politics. From my first run for the state legislature until my election as governor, all too often I was not leading but following my best guess at public opinion.

James McGreevey

#4. Politics requires the sense of possibility. Dare I say it - the audacity of hope.

Douglas Alexander

#5. Look, there ought to be politics in politics.

Karl Rove

#6. Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

Tasha Alexander

#7. Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

Diane Watson

#8. In the United States especially, politics and economics don't mix well. Politicians have all sorts of reasons to pass all sorts of laws that, as well-meaning as they may be, fail to account for the way real people respond to real-world incentives.

Steven D. Levitt

#9. When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it.

John Cusack

#10. Like politics? I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I'd first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It

Barack Obama

#11. Politics is simply the organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

#12. I think it's perfectly possible for us to stay outside of power politics, or parliamentary politics, and speak about things like the American hegemony in the region or speak about the unjust war on terror that's been brought to our borders.

Fatima Bhutto

#13. Kaylin hated politics. Hated them. She hated the stupid decisions, the game playing, the grandstanding. She hated political decisions made by people who never had to do any of the law's actual work. She hated the pervasive sense of superiority and smugness that underlay all of the rules.

Michelle Sagara

#14. Simply put, politics is about "who gets what, when, and

Daniel Shapiro

#15. Isn't that what we come into politics for? To say to people: 'You can do it, too - there is a chance to serve your community. There is a chance to shape it co-operatively and democratically, without fear or favour.' And that is what I tried to do.

Joan Kirner

#16. The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.

Tammy Bruce

#17. Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

Malcolm Forbes

#18. some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.

Timothy Snyder

#19. Politics don't exist, actually. It's just a cheap business. Economics is what makes politics.

Eugene Hutz

#20. Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

Christine Milne

#21. Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

Jane Byrne

#22. We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

#23. Christians who like to write might do as a description of the genus. But the actual species shared more precise characteristics, including intellectual vivacity, love of death, conservative politics, memories of war, and a passion for beef, beer, and verbal battle.

Philip Zaleski

#24. We must control the politics and the politicians of our community. They must no longer take orders from outside forces. We will organize, and sweep out of office all Negro politicians who are puppets for the outside forces.

Malcolm X

#25. National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood.

Tariq Ramadan

#26. Politics are important but your soul lasts forever. So, you know, you make ... decisions on what you think is right or wrong and then you just go forward.

Sam Brownback

#27. Modernism', as a label, has currency in the arts, architecture, planning, landscape, politics, theology, cultural history and elsewhere.

Tom Turner

#28. The 'Irish Question' has dogged English politics for four hundred years and will continue to measure out its irresolution in blood and human lives until there is peace in Ireland.

Kevin Toolis

#29. I wonder why men always talk about politics?" Mary speculated. "I suppose, if we had votes, we should, too." "I

Virginia Woolf

#30. My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.

Jack Johnson

#31. I believe that everything is political, and as such it should concern all of us. Authors who claim they don't deal with politics in their work are being naive, because even that is a political stance.

Elena Poniatowska

#32. Maybe I should have gone into politics. If you were a political activist, election season brought moments of intensity, whichever side you were on, and meanwhile here I was inarguably withering away,

Michel Houellebecq

#33. I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, ... I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.

Bob Dole

#34. All advertising, whether it lies in the field of business or of politics, will carry success by continuity and regular uniformity of application.

Adolf Hitler

#35. I think there are lots of ways to exercise ambition and accomplish things using leadership without going into elected politics. So, categorically, I have no intention of going into elected politics. None.

Chris Hadfield

#36. I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.

Peter Singer

#37. The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

Robert Kane Pappas

#38. I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy

#39. Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.

Pankaj Mishra

#40. The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.

Maryon Pearson

#41. Economics has become as riveting as politics.

Tina Brown

#42. Four days, eight days, twelve days passed, and he was invited to teas, to suppers, to lunches. They sat talking through the long green afternoons - they talked of art, of literature, of life, of society and politics. They ate ice creams and squabs and drank good wines.

Ray Bradbury

#43. Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

Mike Huckabee

#44. I have a job to do ... If you think right now I give a damn about presidential politics, then you don't know me.

Chris Christie

#45. Politics is a dirty, ruthless business, Agent Robie. It makes the intelligence sector look relatively honorable by comparison.

David Baldacci

#46. You can see a lot of politics on a lot of different channels. I'm not interested, really, in talking in some wonky conversation about politics, though. It's not my speed. I'm not interested in the ins and outs of health care.

Joy Behar

#47. The biggest problem in politics is that you help some S.O.B. get what he wants and then he throws you out of the train.

Martha Griffiths

#48. There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States.

George Papandreou

#49. My father said, Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?

Dexter Scott King

#50. Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Al Franken

#51. I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

Tim Scott

#52. Photography is a universal language, transcending the boundaries of race, politics, and nationality.

Arthur Rothstein

#53. Our politics at its best involves us recognizing ourselves in each other. And our politics at its worst are when we see immigrants or women or blacks or gays or Mexicans as somehow separate, apart from us.

Barack Obama

#54. There's a wide range today of documentaries on politics. The central mass of it is made by networks, and nothing's changed.

Robert Drew

#55. If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

Al Yankovic

#56. Since when has a revolution had much to do with politics anyways.

Brooke Bida

#57. But the fact is, again and again in my lifetime, the vicious vituperations, the polemics, the dialectics, the sophistries of politics have become vapour and mist, while what remains is the literature and the art, which at the time might have been merely tolerated by the politicos.

Doris Lessing

#58. In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.

Ian Goldin

#59. Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.

Dalia Grybauskaite

#60. Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

Charles Krauthammer

#61. Helping save other children of humanity ... should always weigh greater than all the world politics, religions and business endeavors. We either help save each other or watch our demise. It won't get better by itself!

Timothy Pina

#62. No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#63. Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

Jeffrey Wright

#64. You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

Stanley Baldwin

#65. You can make money in a small way without politics. But to make big money, you need to buy the legislature. Can't be done otherwise.

Edward Rutherfurd

#66. Perhaps in the long view, de Gaulle was more responsible with his troublesome interventions into our domestic politics, for unifying our country than we will ever give him credit for.

Judy LaMarsh

#67. There comes a time when even the reformer is compelled to face the fairly widespread suspicion of the average man that politics is an exhibition in which there is much ado about nothing.

Walter Lippmann

#68. Politics isn't something that really interested me; I, of course, care about what's going on in the world, but so much of political discourse now is not necessarily about doing what's right.

Mike O'Malley

#69. Our focus is not on current politics, but students seem to be naturally drawn to this topic. This is understandable, when the U.S. is constantly trying to terrorize the nation with threats of war, students obviously take notice.

Mohammad Marandi

#70. Things that are back to front are often easier to comprehend if they are upside down as well. In life as in politics.

Terry Pratchett

#71. This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

Denis De Rougemont

#72. I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.

Donald Trump

#73. Bush had expertise in one thing: How to run a Presidential campaign. He understands campaigns and Presidential politics. He has no interest or disposition or I think probably - he's not stupid, but he's not bright, he's not a rocket scientist - he isn't interested in policy.

John Dean

#74. I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Rebecca West

#75. Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.

Jenny Shipley

#76. I am a secularist in the Gandhian sense of the word, not the Nehruvian one. Nehru thought religion was an antique superstition which stood in the way of rational modern politics. I side with Gandhi, who wanted religious figures out of politics but also was suspicious of purely rational politics.

Pankaj Mishra

#77. Everything about my politics has been about the future.

David Miliband

#78. I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

Lord Byron

#79. Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Flannery O'Connor

#80. Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

Jesse Ventura

#81. The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

Alan Greenspan

#82. I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

Calvin Klein

#83. In the 'Dreamblood' books, I'm focusing more on what I like about epic fantasy: the layering and depth of tension; the chance to really delve into the minutia of an alternate society and its politics; a large cast of characters to love and hate.

N.K. Jemisin

#84. Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Charles Edison

#85. It's a no-win situation with politics; it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

Jordan Peele

#86. Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Colin Powell

#87. The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

Albert Schweitzer

#88. Well who can truly understand politics any more, ever since they all went professional it's all sort of blurred with the entertainments industry.

Steve Merrick

#89. It's a fantastic thing, a very simple idea. Irrespective of your politics, of your culture, of your race, of your whatever, hierdie ding doen ons saam ... Here is one thing that can unite us irrespective of all of the things that are trying to tear us apart.

Desmond Tutu

#90. Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#91. Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

James Russell Lowell

#92. Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.

Jacob Weisberg

#93. As a woman with strong opinions talking about technology and politics is not always welcome in Germany. Nope, it's more like having a great cheerleader team behind me. People who follow my journey know I have a slightly colorful personality. The rest skipped out long ago.

Angela Merkel

#94. I therefore believe that the politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

Roy Jenkins

#95. I can survive setbacks, I've survived a lot of setbacks in my life. I don't see them as anything other than the natural ebb and flow of life and politics.

Hillary Clinton

#96. Today I know this: when it comes time to take stock, the most painful wound is that of broken friendships; and there is nothing more foolish than to sacrifice a friendship to politics.

Milan Kundera

#97. The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Maureen Dowd

#98. Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.

Grover Norquist

#99. When you're in the public eye - whether it be entertainment, sports, medicine, politics, whatever way - you have an opportunity, and I think also an obligation and a responsibility, to disseminate good information.

Ed Begley Jr.

#100. The theft potentially of data does create this image of sort of cloak and dagger politics that we sort of imagine when we think of underhanded politics.

Tamara Keith