Quotes About Politics

The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and carries itself the causes of its destruction.

There's always a lot happening. I mean, that's the thing about politics: it's just one damn thing after another!

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

The Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. I think it's a good rule for politics, too.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over.

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

When the president during the campaign said he was against nation building, I didn't realize he meant our nation.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

If one candidate is appealing to your fears, and the other one's appealing to your hopes, you'd better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope!

In politics a week is a very long time.

I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.

I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.

One of the reasons that politics lets us down is that we keep comparing it to our ideal narratives, to politics on TV or in the movies, which is tidier and better fits such structures.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

The fact that Hitler was a political genius unmasks the nature of politics in general as no other fact can.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

When all else fails the liberals call you names or attack your personality.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].