Quotes About Politics

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

The President is always abused. If he isn't, he isn't doing anything.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Politics is not really politics any more. It is run, for the most part, by Madison Avenue advertising firms, who sell politicians to the public the way they sell bars of soap or cans of beer.

To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary

Intellectual freedom is the only guarantee of a scientific - democratic approach to politics, economic development, and culture.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.

For many people, politics in Brussels and Strasbourg might as well be happening on another planet.

When it comes to politics, one has to do as one at sea with a sailing ship, reach one's course having regard to prevailing winds.

Hope springs eternal, even in politics.

Freedom may be a value in politics, but it is not a value in morals.

Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics.

Secularism for the Congress is merely a slogan while for the BJP it is an article of faith. Secularism is about votebank politics for the Congress, while it is about 'India first' for the BJP.

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics.

One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

You can't say 'I don't do politics,' because silence is a political statement.

If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.

This is a very tough business, politics. It's easy to get resentful or full of bitterness ... (but) I think hatred hurts the hater more than the hated. So I'm looking back on my time positively.

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.