Quotes About Politics

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

People too smart to get involved in politics are doomed to live in societies run by people who aren't.

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.

I was raised with the idea that if you're not smart enough to do science you can do politics.

There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him just so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.

Unfortunately, manipulation and defamation are part of the bad manners that have been prevailing in Poland's politics for ten years now.

I've always had my voice as a comic. I was never that into politics, or prop comedy.

In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party.

Both political parties have their good times and bad times, only they have them at different times.

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

In politics, the truth is strictly optional and that also seems to be true in parts of the media.

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.

What good would politics be, if it didn't give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises.

I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head.

If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up

Obama hasn't been working to earn reelection, he's been working to earn a spot on the PGA tour!

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live.

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't.