Quotes About Politics

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge

I may not be the world's best glad-handing politician, but I've been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Politics are not an instrument for effecting social change; they are the art of making the inevitable appear to be a matter of wise human choice.

Police business is a hell of a problem. It's a good deal like politics. It asks for the highest type of men, and there's nothing in it to attract the highest type of men.

You call that statesmanship. I call it an emotional spasm.

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Now if you shoot someone, sir, you can get off Scott free. It's the latest thing Mr. Lincoln, can you believe?

I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere.

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice.

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Donald Trump tapped into the anger of a declining middle class that is sick and tired of establishment economics, establishment politics and the establishment media.

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall

Those against politics are in favor of the politics inflicted upon them.

Politics is, for me, forgive and -as you may have heard- sometimes forget.

Once you become an immigrant, the first thing that is taken from you is the opportunity to talk about politics and to talk about yourself as a political being.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

At the end of the day, photography is ninety-nine percent business, connections, and politics and one percent creativity.

Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

What politics is all about today. Blah-blah-blah. The day that stops and the quality of our leaders improve, I will have to retire and go away.