Quotes About Politics

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

I think the big problem is you have a vicious cycle of wealth and power in America that's just gotten completely out of control and you've seen it in politics.

In every election in American history both parties have their cliches. The party that has the cliches that ring true wins.

People are increasingly beginning to feel that democracy itself is being destroyed by this latest phase of globalization and that politics doesn't matter because it changes nothing.

In the service, when a man gives you his word, his word is binding. In politics, you never know.

David Boaz has been my guide to the history, economics, and politics of freedom for years.

There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.

Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.

I'd have all the cars made in the Carolinas, and I'd ban the ones made in China.

I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.

Nostalgia is one of the legitimate and certainly one of the most enduring of human emotions; but the politics of nostalgia is at best distracting, at worst pernicious.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.

The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

Politics is theater. It doesn't matter if you win. You make a statement. You say, "I'm here, pay attention to me