Quotes About Politics

I believe that politics takes a much different set of skills than science. Science is about getting to the truth. Politics is about what people think and how they react.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.

It should be remembered, as an axiom of eternal truth in politics, that whatever power in any government is independent, is absolute also.

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's the truth.

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Presentationally, Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is, far too many have.

Make sure of two things. Be careful - microphones are always hot, and understand that in Washington, D.C., a gaffe is when you tell the truth. So, be careful.

Things are difficult enough about Iraq without the Federal Government suppressing the truth about Iraq.

In highly charged political matters, one person's ambiguity may be another person's truth.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

I'm not a politician; I'm an artist. So I always feel the need to give the unfiltered truth, (or) what I think is the truth, at least.

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.

The truth is that a lot of plays aren't political at all. In American theater history, political theater has tended to crop up when there's a crisis, a national crisis.

I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

While liberals had embraced Obama as someone who had left-wing progressive ideas, the truth is that by personality he's a very incremental guy.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

Tea-baggers love the truth. They just hate facts.

Barack Obama isn't the first politician to break a promise, torture the truth or outright lie to the American people. But, he certainly is among the most accomplished at it.

The President Donald Trump has great difficulty with the truth on many issues.

Stop telling the truth about my record!

My political life has been informed by the view that if there was any truth to religion there wouldn't really be any need for politics.

President Bush said John Kerry is on both sides of every issue. And Kerry replied, 'No, I'm not ... but there is some truth to that.'

Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.

You know, probably the notion that conservatives, Republicans, only care about the rich and that Democrats care about the poor - is that true? And nothing could be further from the truth.