Top 999 Politics Quotes & Sayings

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

I quit politics because I hated it.

A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're there for a long time.

When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

The public seldom forgive twice.

I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

I don't really dabble into the politics of MMA too much.

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my 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.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

My Methodist upbringing was very formative in my politics. I was born in 1969, and there was all this ecumenical 'we're in this together' sensitivity that was part of the United Methodist Church in the 1970s.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Uncle Matheson and my father would frequently argue long into the night about politics. Like me, he was all about socialism, togetherness and investing in people, whereas Matheson, to this day, holds very strong conservative views.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

'Rakta Charitra' was more about human conflict than politics.

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.

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.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.

Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'

Politics abhors a vacuum, and Asian countries will gravitate towards China if U.S. influence is perceived as declining.