Famous Quotes
- Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton on Politics
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Adams on Politics
- President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.
- Lindsey Graham on Politics
- Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain on Politics
- Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
- Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
- Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
- Pope John Paul II on Politics
- Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Politics
- Regardless of Bill Clinton's politics or personal life, he grew up in obscurity and was elected to the presidency - twice. Don't take that away from him, because then you take it away from every other kid in America sitting out there in a school bus with a big dream.
- Mike Huckabee on Politics
- Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
- Tahar Ben Jelloun on Politics
- Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about.
- Gerard Way on Politics
- Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
- Russell Baker on Politics
- Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.
- Jimmy Carter on Politics
- Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
- Lewis Black on Politics
- Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
- Ambrose Bierce on Politics
- Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.
- Todd Gitlin on Politics
- Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.
- Elisabeth Shue on Politics
- Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
- Jennifer M. Granholm on Politics
- Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.
- Grover Cleveland on Politics
- Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
- Kenneth Robert Livingstone on Politics
- Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
- Anita Roddick on Politics
- Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
- Peggy Noonan on Politics
- Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
- Talib Kweli on Politics
- So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.
- Alastair Campbell on Politics
- So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
- Roger Nash Baldwin on Politics
- So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
- Steve Case on Politics
- Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.
- Joseph Crowley on Politics
- Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
- Anna Deavere Smith on Politics
- 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 on Politics
- Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.
- Eliot Spitzer on Politics
- Sometimes when I listen to fellow progressives, I wonder if the only lesson we took away from the '04 elections is that politics is a word game.
- Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
- Dick Morris on Politics
- Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
- Mark Twain on Politics
- Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
- Television is democracy at its ugliest.
- Paddy Chayefsky on Politics
- Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.
- Johann Lamont on Politics
- That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
- Angela Merkel on Politics
- The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
- Ralph Nader on Politics
- The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.
- Eric Alterman on Politics
- The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
- Ross Perot on Politics
- The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
- Marilyn Manson on Politics
- The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
- Christopher Hitchens on Politics
- The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
- Emmeline Pankhurst on Politics
- The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
- Konrad Adenauer on Politics
- The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
- Neal Barnard on Politics
- The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
- Nick Clegg on Politics
- The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
- Daniel Patrick Moynihan on Politics
- The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you're working for a political party, is that everyone's a messenger.
- Frank Luntz on Politics
- The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
- Hillary Clinton on Politics
- The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.
- Terry Eagleton on Politics
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