Quotes About Compassion

There are two kinds of politics in the world: the politics of love and the politics of fear.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Did you weep for the children who lost their dear loved ones and pray for the ones who don't know? Did you rejoice for the people who walked from the rubble, and sob for the ones left below?

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

Tolerance is love sick with the sickness of haughtiness.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

Everybody wants to see justice done, to somebody else.

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.

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.

The best kind of politics is when you help people become their own best selves.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Seek to make a person blush for their guilt rather than shed their blood.

Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

A statesman doesn't try to pull himself up by dragging someboy else down, and he doesn't try to convience people they're victims just so he can posture as their savior.

When you hate someone intensely, 80% of what you think is delusion.

I call it people-to-people politics and thats what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what were going to do.

Memo to extreme partisans: If you can't bring yourselves to love your enemies, can you at least learn to hate your friends?

If you do anything above party, the true hearted ones of all parties sympathize with you.

I am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.

Politics, differences of religion or race, all that fades away when we are confronted with the awesome power of nature, and we're reminded that all we have is each other.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

One of the benefits of aligning yourself with an indistinct cluster of people is that claiming to feel their pain is often enough.