Top 999 Politics Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.

My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

When I first started out in politics I was, what you might describe as, a hard right Conservative.

A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

All politics are local, and so in church.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Politicians have made people cry... politics has become a circus.

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in 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.

I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

When you're coaching at Kentucky, you're held to a different standard, and like in politics, there is a core group that absolutely loves you, and everyone else is trying to unseat you in any way they can - anything to trip you up; that's what it is. If you're not up to that, then don't coach at Kentucky.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.

I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.

A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Trump represented a movement of dissatisfaction, the dissent, unhappiness, division cultivated by years of identity politics and the bullying of arrogant, insufferable, intolerant social justice warriors who used the last two terms to punish anyone who reminded them of Daddy.

The best politics is no politics.

Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.

There's no room for petty grievances in politics.

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

I don't think that people are disinterested or uninterested in politics. I think very often they are disengaged from the formal political process. To some extent they are suspicious or even despairing of formal politics as a means to give expression and effect to what they want.

It's a cowardly form of politics to use my spouse to beat me.

Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

I don't want to engage in politics; it's too hot.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

The fossil fuel industry has been a particular disgrace, polluting our politics as well as our planet.

It's not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it's not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

In the absurd idiocy of identity regressive politics, looting is seen as protest, and protecting one's own property is seen as privilege.