Famous Quotes
- In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
- Armstrong Williams on Politics
- Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many.
- James McGreevey on Politics
- Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
- Ronald Reagan on Politics
- Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
- Doug Larson on Politics
- Is anyone serious about the politics of happiness? David Cameron dipped a toe in the water, using the word lightly, but denying the hard policies it implies. Labour shies away from it, but should take up the challenge.
- Polly Toynbee on Politics
- Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
- Pat Robertson on Politics
- It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan on Politics
- It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
- Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. on Politics
- It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Politics
- It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
- Thomas Carlyle on Politics
- It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Politics
- It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
- Sandra Day O'Connor on Politics
- It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
- Hedy Lamarr on Politics
- It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
- Joseph Stalin on Politics
- It is important to recognize and politics positive thinking is often the slaves' virtue - something that people do to con themselves about the burden and change being placed upon them.
- James Bovard on Politics
- It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
- Khaleda Zia on Politics
- It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
- Robert Byrd on Politics
- It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
- George MacDonald on Politics
- It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
- It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'
- Malcolm Turnbull on Politics
- It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
- Paul Wellstone on Politics
- It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'
- Rutherford B. Hayes on Politics
- It isn't fate but fecklessness that has shoved Sarah Palin to the sidelines of national politics. The real tragedy is that she's taken a lot of other serious Republican women with her.
- Dee Dee Myers on Politics
- It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
- Susan George on Politics
- It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.
- Jon Meacham on Politics
- It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.
- Shirley MacLaine on Politics
- It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
- Roger Ebert on Politics
- It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.
- Jane Fonda on Politics
- It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
- Robert Redford on Politics
- It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
- Stephen Leacock on Politics
- It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
- John Hughes on Politics
- It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.
- Lester Bangs on Politics
- It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?
- LeVar Burton on Politics
- It's not that I'm universally loved. We know I'm not in New Jersey. But what they do say in New Jersey is, 'We like him, and we think he's telling us the truth.' I think we need to have that type of politics on the national level.
- Chris Christie on Politics
- It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
- Bob Geldof on Politics
- It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
- It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.
- Eliot Spitzer on Politics
- It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.
- Angela Davis on Politics
- It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.
- John Bolton on Politics
- Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
- Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
- Daniel Webster on Politics
- King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Politics
- Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
- Warren Beatty on Politics
- Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
- Ann Richards on Politics
- Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
- John F. Kennedy on Politics
- Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
- Nancy Pelosi on Politics
- Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
- Francis Parker Yockey on Politics
- Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
- William E. Gladstone on Politics
- Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics
- Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.
- Saul Alinsky on Politics
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