Quotes About Politics

Politics is social work with power.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

Politics, as any observer of the modern world knows, is the enemy of economics, everywhere and always.

The American people are growing extremely unhappy with establishment politics, with establishment economics, and you know what else? Even with establishment media.

I grew up with three brothers and no sisters. That's the best preparation for politics any girl can have.

When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to the right.

The most startling aspect of the nutrition situation in India is that it is not much of an issue in public debates and electoral politics.

Democrats never agree on anything, that's why they're Democrats. If they agreed with each other, they would be Republicans.

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Party leads to vicious, corrupt and unprofitable legislation, for the sole purpose of defeating party.

I'm not a member of an organized party. I'm a Democrat.

The government transfers income and wealth according to the rules of politics, which make politicians the primary beneficiaries of the system, and the poor and needy the primary victims.

I just don't believe in the basic concept that someone should make their whole career in public service.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.

If you were buying products or going to movies based upon the politics of the people involved, well I probably couldn't go to half the movies I go to.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

diplomacy, n.: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.