Quotes About Politics

That's the beauty of our show. Comedy or politics. We're sort of a mix. A space age polymer of both. A synthetic comedy-like material.

Change your leaders, not your light bulbs.

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

In U.S. politics, 'compassion' means giving money and privileges to well organized interest groups at everyone else's expense.

The politics, policies, the President [Barack Obama] and the American people are all pointing in the right direction to fix our immigration system and pass legislation this year.

It is now well known, however, that men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.

Sometimes in politics, you think you've seen it all. Turns out I was wrong.

Until politics are a branch of science, we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Money is the fuel that makes political victory possible. Sadly, folks, in many cases it's more important than ideas. And this is what turns off so many people to politics.

In politics one may remain aloof and become irrelevant or get involved and get corrupted.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

Who could be luckier than to be paid fairly well, which to be honest MPs are, for pursuing their hobby.? That's what politics is.

No place could be less sympathetic to my politics than America.

William Gladstone has not a single redeeming defect.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

John Glenn craved the publicity. I think even John would admit that. When he went into politics, that became pretty obvious! He knew how to do public relations.

In a country like Pakistan where is politics is often an art form of the elite, and it's often very dynastic, it's hard to explain to people why I don't think it's a birthright.

What I'm passionate about is History, and politics interest me only insofar as it is the cross-section of History in the present.

You do the policy, I'll do the politics.

In a world shaped and colored more and more by politicians, the nations meet politically, and hardly any other way to settle their differences.

Any creed whose basic doctrines do not include respect for the creeds of others, is simply power politics masquerading as philosophy.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.