Quotes About Politics

What the people here have said is that given the enormous crises facing our country, it is just too late for the same old, same old establishment politics and establishment economics.

Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig knows about Sunday.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

To understand the workings of American politics, you have to understand this fundamental law: Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.

Most of the founders of this country had day jobs for years. They were not career politicians. ... We need leaders with experience in the real world, not experience in the phony world of politics.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny precisely because its principles are the founding principles.

A politician's words reveal less about what he thinks about his subject than what he thinks about his audience.

A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

Spirituality which inspires activism and, similarly, politics which move the spirit - which draw from the deep-seated place of our greatest longings for freedom - give meaning to our lives.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

I don't have any politics. I feel that as soon as politics arises, things are already in a hopeless state of deterioration.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him

The reality is that capital punishment in America is a lottery. It is a punishment that is shaped by the constraints of poverty, race, geography and local politics.

Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Music is the only industry where you don't need to know what you're doing to get ahead. Well, that and politics.

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.