The Politics Quotes

#1. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.

Alex Ebert

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

Moshe Sharett

#3. Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

#4. 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

#5. I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

Loretta Lynn

#6. When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

Frank Rich

#7. If you're a social democrat, then you think it's cool to pay taxes. For me, tax is the finest expression for what politics really is.

Mona Sahlin

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

Adlai E. Stevenson

#9. I have learnt from the politics of my great country, Nigeria that there is nothing wrong with the heads of states, but there is something wrong with the state of the heads.

Ogwo David Emenike

#10. L.A. is such a real, active place. My mother was very into the core of the city. She worked in politics, and you have to know your territory. It's an active matrix; we're all parts of it, but people don't often stop to wonder what's going on.

Janet Fitch

#11. The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion.

Lord Hailsham

#12. When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

Hillary Clinton

#13. Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Zygmunt Bauman

#14. Generalization is flawed thinking only when applied to individuals. It is the most accurate way to describe the mass, the Wad. And yours is a democracy, a dictatorship of the Wad.

Trevanian

#15. In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

Chuck Todd

#16. When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

Nina Easton

#17. Profit sharing in the form of stock distributions to workers would help to democratize the ownership of America's vast corporate wealth which is today appallingly undemocratic and unhealthy.

Walter Reuther

#18. In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics.

Thomas Sowell

#19. People do not come out to vote for a United States Senator. They come out to vote for the Sheriff or the County Commissioner.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#20. In Washington, when you're a leader, you have to put aside partisan politics to do what's right for the people.

George Pataki

#21. The only candidate I'd allow to play my music would be Bigfoot, and unless we're talking about foraging for squirrels, he's notoriously apolitical.

Greg Gutfeld

#22. If you want to know what political extremism can lead to, look at the Zapruder film. Take particular note of frame 313, where Kennedy's head explodes.

Stephen King

#23. Listen, Peaches, trickery is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them.

Terry Pratchett

#24. My mother, she worked in the mayor's office in Chicago when I was growing up and has been in democratic politics for a long time.

Graham Moore

#25. I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

Natalie Jeremijenko

#26. So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

Marianne Williamson

#27. What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

Tom Hodgkinson

#28. Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger.

Robert Reich

#29. Oh for 'Shael's sweet sake, girl, you think you can rule an empire without lying? You think your father didn't lie? Or his father? Or any of your goldy-eyed great-great-founders of Annur? It's built into the job. Bakers have flour, fishermen have nets, and leaders have lies.

Brian Staveley

#30. Poetry can change hearts but not the politician's heart.

Marty Rubin

#31. Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln

#32. Government as well as religion has furnished its schisms, its persecutions and its devices for fattening idleness on the earnings of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

#33. As long as you remember that if you get involved in politics, you have to be very careful that your leader is for Allah. You don't get involved in politics because it's the American thing to do. You get involved in politics because politics are a weapon to use in the cause of Islam,

Siraj Wahhaj

#34. 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

#35. Don't let any of 'em in the room 'til my guy gets what he needs. We'll be outta here before they get their gloves on.
Tea Party Teddy's Legacy

Dianne Harman

#36. So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

James Woods

#37. It is about time that the religious and environmental faithful joined forces. No one wins when divisive politics pits the right to human life against the sanctity of biodiversity, or family values against ecosystem services. There are infinite compatible reasons to love, cherish and steward Earth.

Alex Bruce

#38. Politics, Garrett thought. Like a food fight without the internal logic.

Jack McDonald Burnett

#39. The Aryan stock is bound to triumph.

Winston Churchill

#40. To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

Charles Krauthammer

#41. I think President Obama could have handled politics and policies differently. But he has been decisive, strong, and consistent - important qualities in a president. Mitt Romney is indeed an Etch A Sketch, the antithesis of leadership.

Eliot Spitzer

#42. That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.

Anita Loos

#43. We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

Hank Williams Jr.

#44. If you took the most ardent revolutionary, vested him in absolute power, within a year he would be worse than the Tsar himself.

Mikhail Bakunin

#45. We are, in any case, only one of the forces acting in society

Errico Malatesta

#46. History is really a study of the future, not the past.

Arundhati Roy

#47. Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

Dwight Garner

#48. In such a society as ours the only possible chance for change, for mobility, for political, economic, and moral flow lies in the tactics of guerrilla warfare, in the use of fictions, of language.

Kathy Acker

#49. When a politician spends a million on himself, we rally and call him a thief. But when a cardinal spends the same amount on his attire, we kneel down and kiss his hand.

Justin Villanueva

#50. Like most Americans, I feel disgusted when we see people make decisions based on party politics rather than a solution that is best for the country.

Paul Sadler

#51. And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.

Tom Hanks

#52. The West wants unconditional love; failing that, unconditional surrender.

Nadeem Aslam

#53. Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Mark Pryor

#54. 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

#55. This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers

#56. Beguiled by George S. Bush's easy smile and casual indifference to the details, we are on the brink of electing him to office. This isn't choosing a president, it's casting the lead in a sitcom about the presidency.

Roger Ebert

#57. Right now the best way that I can impact the world is through entertainment. One day, and that day will come, I can impact the world through politics. The great news is that I am American, therefore I can become President. But don't forget: I am G.I. Joe.

Dwayne Johnson

#58. Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

R. R. Reno

#59. 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

#60. The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Pierre Trudeau

#61. The final outcome of the credit expansion is general impoverishment.

Ludwig Von Mises

#62. I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need.

Barack Obama

#63. The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

Wilhelm Reich

#64. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

Harry S. Truman

#65. 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

#66. 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

#67. They are fighting for the chair while I am fighting for your happiness.

Narendra Modi

#68. There is nothing in art, in philosophy, or in politics to match the fervor of mutual cooperation among discordant bands of fanatics.

Alan Dean Foster

#69. I think it's really hard to make songs that pursue an agenda. You can kind of do it a little bit through a character, so the character gives voice to something or their story, the story of the character tells you something, but, for me anyway, it's really hard to write directly about politics.

David Byrne

#70. The '90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.

Jil Sander

#71. Vote; it's the most important right granted to you as a citizen. But unless you are a politician, stay out of politics because your gains will not change anything and your losses will only make you waste your time and many friendships.

Ben Tolosa

#72. The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

H. H. Asquith

#73. The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region ... are making by giving a chance to women.

Atifete Jahjaga

#74. The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

Jonah Goldberg

#75. The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.

Alexandre Dumas

#76. American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics.

Noam Chomsky

#77. The corrupt begat corruption.

Steven Magee

#78. The politics of the family are the politics of a nation. Just as the authoritarian family is the authoritarian state in microcosm, the democratic family is the best training ground for life in a democracy.

Letty Cottin Pogrebin

#79. 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

#80. All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Reston

#81. Politics is the application of Sufism to earthlife ... To refuse to act politically is to starve your children, destroy civilization.

Shamcher Bryn Beorse

#82. Politics and war were just different names for power, and the price of power was predictably high and could be precisely measured-in dollards,yen,euros,rubles,riyals, and blood.

Tara Janzen

#83. We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.

Garrison Keillor

#84. Trans activism in the US has most frequently been grassroots, centered on poverty and criminalization, and often oppositional to the exclusionary "mainstreaming" threads in gay and lesbian politics and feminist politics.

Dean Spade

#85. 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

#86. The Democrats often seem like the Not Republican Party, no more and no less.

Peggy Noonan

#87. 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

#88. So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Mark Poster

#89. Personally, I believe there's a limitation to how much politics can change the world
but there's no limitation to how much individuals can change the world.

Mariane Pearl

#90. In politics, you must let the other person have your way.

Claiborne Pell

#91. As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

Stephen King

#92. I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.

Larry Brilliant

#93. The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.

Ted Shackelford

#94. Cynicism is extremely contagious, and the most pious among us cannot long endure its potency. The gullible should be on their guard, however, since this endearing quality frequently masquerades as wit.

Mike Corbett

#95. We've had periods of meanness in American politics. Actually, the dawn of partisan division in America was basically in George Washington's second term, when it was obvious that he would be the first and only consensus president.

William J. Clinton

#96. Every age fraught with discord and danger seems to spawn a leader meant only for that age, a political giant whose absence, in retrospect, seems inconceivable when the history of that age is written.

Dan Simmons

#97. Ours was a family in which everybody was constantly reading, and where literature, politics, history, and the events of the prize ring were discussed at breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

Louis L'Amour

#98. You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.

Will.i.am

#99. In Europe, even more so than in national politics, we have to follow the principle laid down by Martin Luther: Use language that the people will understand, but don't just tell them what they want to hear.

Jean-Claude Juncker

#100. [Today's left] would have left us with Slobodan Milosevic in power, Bosnia ethnically cleansed, Kosovo part of Greater Serbia, Afghanistan under the Taliban, and Iraq the property of a psychopathic crime family. Now, I'm sorry to say, I've no patience with that leftist mentality anymore.

Christopher Hitchens