Quotes About Politics

There are no true friends in politics.

Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the edges without any greater vision, without a sense of optimism and imagination.

First and foremost, The Quiet Invasion is a first contact story. What would we do if we actually found evidence of alien life out there? It's also about politics.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

Walter Mondale has all the charisma of a speed bump.

The short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

Like all forms of collective security, multilateral sanctions require a unanimity rarely achieved in international politics.

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny "arf" - the sound of a lap dog.

I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

Maybe democrats will eventually turn on Obamacare when they realize you might need a photo I.D. to participate in the program.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

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.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

The government cannot love you, and any politics that works on a different assumption is destined for no good.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

Politics is show business for ugly people.