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Quotes About Politics

Everything is art. Everything is politics.
~ Ai Weiwei
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
~ Winston S. Churchill
The trouble with socialists is that they let their bleeding hearts go to their bloody heads.
~ Tommy Douglas
I'm very open about my politics. I don't believe in any political party at all, none of them.
~ John Lydon
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself.
~ Mark Twain
I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.
~ Kathie Lee Gifford
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.
~ Thomas Sowell
The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more.
~ Malcolm X
It is impossible to understand history, international politics, the world economy, religions, philosophy, or 'patterns of culture' without taking geography into account.
~ Kenneth C. Davis
Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
~ William E. Gladstone
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
~ John Adams
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
~ Will Rogers
I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.
~ Anthony Jeselnik
If we do not allow free thinking in chemistry or biology, why should we allow it in morals or politics?
~ Auguste Comte
Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
~ Colin Powell
I'm not really a fan of, like, rock stars, movie stars, people like that. I like politics.
~ Alex Jones
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
~ Marcel Achard
The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites.
~ Thomas Sowell
We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain't it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
~ Waylon Jennings
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
~ Frank Zappa
In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.
~ Plato
Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.
~ Emmanuel Levinas
I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.
~ Mark Cuban
politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
~ Oscar Ameringer