Quotes About Politics

Politics can not only be drudgery and Captain Queeg with the balls in his hands.

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

If I had engaged in politics, O men of Athens, I should have perished long ago, and done no good either to you or to myself.

The reason I entered politics was a belief that the people of this country - having achieved so much that was good and noble in our past - had the potential to do amazing things in the future.

Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.

As soon as I set foot in the parliamentary Sinai, I ceased to be in touch with the masses.

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

The rhetoric of hate and binarisms pervades the politics of the "Third-World" and of the West.

We all know that Prime Ministers are wedded to the truth, but like other wedded couples they sometimes live apart.

The increasing communalization of Indian politics is a juggernaut that annihilates the myth of secularism in India.

I never let my politics supersede my manners.

If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author.

International politics, by and large, are a depressing study.

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

We are now vibrating between too much and too little government, and the pendulum will rest finally in the middle.

The next step has to be the necessary step. It's always to put the immigrant community and the civil rights movement ahead of partisan politics.

The agrarian crisis [in India] is an unnecessary tragedy, resulting directly from an economics of greed and a politics driven by the economies of greed.

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

I think the policy makers like the idea of being the boss. I mean people who like to boss other people around like to go into politics so they can become the boss.

I'll always put policy ahead of politics and I think people expect that. They're sick of the politics getting in the way of decent outcomes for people.