Quotes About Politics

Politics is a far more intellectual business than is often realized. You may think: Well, if it's simplicity that's required, you don't need a whole lot of detail. Wrong. The simplicity is not born of superficial analysis. It is simple precisely because it is the product of being worked through.

I can stand here today, leader of the Labour Party, Prime Minister, and say to the British people: you have never had it so ... prudent.

I don't like it, to be honest, when politicians make a big thing of their religious beliefs, so I don't make a big thing of it.

The Labour Party is presently marooned on fantasy island. I understand would-be leaders will want to go there and speak the native language in the hope of persuading enough eventually to migrate to the mainland of reality.

Okay, so one thing I've learned over a long period time in politics is not to get mixed up in someone else's politics. I've got enough problems back here at home, so we'll leave all these questions around Ukraine and impeachment to American politics.

The extraordinary thing is the Labour Party's desire to rewrite its only period of majority government in half a century in negative terms.

I think the same feelings that gave rise to Brexit gave rise to the election of Donald Trump. In my view, the important thing for those of us from the progressive side of politics is not just to go in head-on opposition to all that, but to try and work out why it happened, and how we meet the anxieties of people without getting into the politics of fear.

I think the worry all the time, I think in, not just in Europe but outside, is where does the US stand in this slightly difficult space between America first and America alone.

What always happens, in my experience, is that people always think American politics is very different, but usually it is a predictor of what happens in the politics elsewhere.

Voters must have faith in the electoral process for our democracy to succeed.

I feel rather sad about politics,' she [Eleanor Roosevelt] wrote Isabella, 'there are so many who are out for themselves and not for the good of the country in both parties and conditions are so unsettled that we need a really fine leader.

Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy.

P.B.S. Pinchback, a black politician originally from Mississippi and a supporter of Governor Warmoth's, put it more bluntly: "It is wholesale falsehood to say that we wish to force ourselves upon white people." In his view blacks "could get no rights the whites did not see fit to give them." But the colored Creoles couldn't reconcile this attitude with their urgent desire "to be respected and treated

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.

I've thought about it, not a lot, but I thought my relationship with Congress - the Democrats and Republicans - would help me get some things done. Not everything, but at least they'd be willing to try.

He's [G.H.W. Bush] never had to do a day's work in his life.

They say that patriotism is the last refuge to which a scoundrel clings

We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.

You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

Communist China is doing the same shit as America is doing, but they're out front with it.