Quotes About Politics

Modern politics has become little more than shirking responsibility and blaming somebody else.

The army will hear nothing of politics from me and in return I expect to hear nothing of politics from the army.

Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Censorship should never be allowed. One should be able to say anything. But I refuse to let politics be foisted on me.

We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.

It is an axiom, enforced by all the experience of the ages, that they who rule industrially will rule politically.

Public opinion, or what passes for public opinion, is not invariably a moderating force in the jungle of politics.

The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all.

Politics, when it is an art and a service, not an exploitation, is about acting for an ideal through realities.

All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point.

Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.

My politics were those of prophylaxis, my opponents preferred those of palliation.

We [Americans] have to get beyond the greed-run-amok. We have to get beyond indifference to the poor and working people. We have to get beyond polarized politics.

In politics there's never a magic wand.

Let us not forget that we can never go farther than we can persuade at least half of the people to go.

In politics, manipulating reality can take presidence over finding reality.

You suffer from the oldest delusion in politics. You think you can change the world by talking to a leader. Leaders are the effects, not the causes of changes.

The opposition is indispensable. A good statesman, like any other sensible human being, always learns more from his opposition than from his fervent supporters.

This is the new politics. Personal responsibility. Not leaving it to others. I am my planet's keeper.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible.