Quotes About Politics

I think the air is out of the gun control balloon, and I think what popped the balloon is politics and elections.

In politics, one can learn some things from cycling, such as how to have character and courage. Sometimes in politics there isn't enough of those things.

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

People who believe in politics are like people who believe in God: they are sucking wind through bent straws.

Concerning politics: "The American media is like a watchdog who has developed an affection for the burglar."

The politics of envy is the politics of this commandment: "Thou shalt not steal, except by majority vote." It is the politics of two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Politics is the most concentrated expression of economics.

How can you hope to build up a nation by fragmenting its politics into opposing camps? Whatever one group builds, the other will endeavour to destroy.

Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police.

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

Mixing pop and politics he asks me what the use is / I offer him embarrassment and my usual excuses.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

As they say around the Texas Legislature, if you can't drink their whiskey, screw their women, take their money, and vote against 'em anyway, you don't belong in office.

Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.

Work is pushing matter around. Politics is pushing people around.

Libertarianism is a theory of politics that is so compelling that once you have absorbed it, it becomes the lens through which you end up understanding all economic and political events.

It is dangerous to play politics with the Budget.

History is past politics, and politics is present history.

Does anyone need yet another politician caught with his pants down and money sticking in his hole?

Yeah, exactly, you can talk about politics in music, you can talk about something else, but that's always going to change, and love is never going to change.