Famous Quotes
- We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
- Adlai E. Stevenson on Politics
- We mistake politics for legislative debate. You can be passionate without being personal.
- Richard Dreyfuss on Politics
- 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 on Politics
- We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
- We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
- Calvin Coolidge on Politics
- We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.
- Lucy Powell on Politics
- We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.
- J. C. Watts on Politics
- We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned.
- James Buchan on Politics
- We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.
- Zach Galifianakis on Politics
- We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions.
- We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
- Kin Hubbard on Politics
- We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.
- Henry Cabot Lodge on Politics
- We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.
- Talib Kweli on Politics
- We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
- Patricia Hewitt on Politics
- We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
- Stephen King on Politics
- Well Australia's been in Afghanistan from the get go, way back in 2001, but we have been resolute throughout and with support from both sides of Australian politics.
- Kevin Rudd on Politics
- Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.
- Caroline Kennedy on Politics
- 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 on Politics
- 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 on Politics
- Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth.
- Mel Gibson on Politics
- Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.
- John Breaux on Politics
- Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.
- Jim DeMint on Politics
- Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.
- Caroline Kennedy on Politics
- Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
- Roger Ebert on Politics
- What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
- Jon Bon Jovi on Politics
- What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
- George Bernard Shaw on Politics
- What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.
- Nick Clegg on Politics
- What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
- William Blake on Politics
- What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
- Rahm Emanuel on Politics
- What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
- Frank Luntz on Politics
- What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
- Estelle Morris on Politics
- What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
- Lyndon B. Johnson on Politics
- What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.
- Lindsey Graham on Politics
- Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way.
- George Saunders on Politics
- When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
- William Hague on Politics
- 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 on Politics
- When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- Edmund Burke on Politics
- When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
- P. J. O'Rourke on Politics
- When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
- Maggie Gallagher on Politics
- When I became leader, I made very clear I was not going to choose the easy life. I have always taken risks. I don't like comfort-zone politics.
- Nick Clegg on Politics
- When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
- Imran Khan on Politics
- When I first started working in politics, as a junior aide on Walter Mondale's 1984 presidential campaign, it never occurred to me that I would one day work in the White House. There were plenty of women among the volunteers who stuffed envelopes and walked precincts. But there were fewer and fewer on each successive level of influence and access.
- Dee Dee Myers on Politics
- When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.
- Ted Turner on Politics
- When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.
- Clarence Darrow on Politics
- When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
- John W. Gardner on Politics
- When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
- Charles De Secondat on Politics
- When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
- Imelda Marcos on Politics
- When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
- William J. Clinton on Politics
- When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
- William J. Clinton on Politics
- When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
- Herbert Hoover on Politics
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