Famous Quotes
- The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
- Mitt Romney on Politics
- The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri on Politics
- The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
- James Wolcott on Politics
- The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Politics
- The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.
- Eric Sevareid on Politics
- The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
- R. Buckminster Fuller on Politics
- The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both.
- John Cornyn on Politics
- The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
- Pierre Trudeau on Politics
- The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
- The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
- Thomas Sowell on Politics
- The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
- John Major on Politics
- The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
- Gloria Steinem on Politics
- The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
- Theodore White on Politics
- The gays like 'Project Runway' because it's a fashion, and the gays are into fashion and into design. It's a creative industry, and most of the gays are pretty creative, in general. That's just like the culture. We're not all into politics necessarily. We're more into the creative environment. I also think Heidi is a big draw. The boys love Heidi and think she's so fabulous. I just think it's a glitzy, fun show, and there are also always lots of gay boys on it, and, you know, that's fun.
- Christian Siriano on Politics
- The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Politics
- The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
- Christopher Lasch on Politics
- The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
- Jerry Falwell on Politics
- The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Politics
- The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey.
- Kathryn Bigelow on Politics
- The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities, through legislation and other means, and to increase women's representation in politics, which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.
- Lucy Powell on Politics
- The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.
- Michael Pollan on Politics
- The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
- Robert Reich on Politics
- The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
- Hugh Sidey on Politics
- The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault.
- Sarah Palin on Politics
- The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.
- Glenn Beck on Politics
- The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
- John Kenneth Galbraith on Politics
- The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
- Alphonse De Lamartine on Politics
- The more that I know of politics, the more it makes me realize that being a politician is largely useless.
- Sophia Bush on Politics
- The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
- Will Rogers on Politics
- The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
- Louis D. Brandeis on Politics
- The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
- Theodore Roosevelt on Politics
- The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
- Aldous Huxley on Politics
- The movies were custard compared to politics.
- Nancy Reagan on Politics
- The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
- Peter Singer on Politics
- The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
- Al Franken on Politics
- The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
- Charles Kennedy on Politics
- The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
- Oscar Levant on Politics
- The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
- H. Rap Brown on Politics
- The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.
- Malcolm Turnbull on Politics
- The only thing I have no control over is the politics that goes on within the record company. It's always been the same, but it's far tougher now, because record companies are run by financial people before, they were run by creative people.
- Enrique Iglesias on Politics
- The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
- John Stuart Mill on Politics
- The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
- Clare Boothe Luce on Politics
- The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.
- Lindsey Graham on Politics
- The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy.
- Michael Bloomberg on Politics
- The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
- Benjamin Disraeli on Politics
- The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics.
- John Sununu on Politics
- The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
- Shimon Peres on Politics
- The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
- Malcolm Turnbull on Politics
- The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.
- Christopher Lasch on Politics
- The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
- Fidel Castro on Politics
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