Quotes About Politics

So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.

The question is not if the candidate's heart is favorable to Christianity, but if he has Christ as his starting point even for politics, and will speak out His name!

The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer relevant.

When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

It is truly a triumph of rhetoric over reality when people can believe that going into politics is 'public service,' but that producing food, shelter, transportation, or medical care is not.

Power politics is the diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.

It took a Clinton to clean up after the first Bush, it may take another Clinton to clean up after the second one

If Communism was liberalism in a hurry, liberalism is Communism in slow motion.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

A politician is not as narrow-minded as he forces himself to be.

Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.

I don't feel too comfortable talking about politics and media as I feel like I don't sound too smart.

You can choose not to be interested in politics, but you can't choose to be unaffected by it

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

Whenever we defend democracy we find oil.

Global politics remains extremely complex and countries have different interests, which will also lead them to make what might seem as rather bizarre friends and allies.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.