Quotes About Politics

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

I don't get into politics. I know [Donald] Trump, but I don't follow that. That's just an aside for him when he has nothing else to say. He never involved me in any of that stuff.

To me the function of politics is to make possible the desirable.

One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb.

In politics intentions count for nothing; actions are what matter.

Revolutions are not made for export.

Politics and life go hand in hand.

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently.

Well, it would have to be "The Man Who Was Thursday." It's a damn good read that I believe should be read by everyone in politics.

You can hardly say boo to a goose in the House of Commons now without cries of "Ungentlemanly," "Not fair" and all the rest.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

Whenever a fellow tells me he's bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

The NGO-ization of politics threatens to turn resistance into a well-mannered, reasonable, salaried, 9-to-5 job. With a few perks thrown in. Real resistance has real consequences. And no salary.

The central issue of poetry as of politics is the destiny of the human personality.

The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

Mudslinging - In politics, anything bad the opponent says about our candidate; in contrast, when our candidate does this, it is called 'making a good point.

[The Great Migration] had such an effect on almost every aspect of our lives - from the music that we listen to to the politics of our country to the ways the cities even look and feel.

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote.

It's very personal in its politics, very bitter and very negative.

Republicans are so empty-headed, they wouldn't make a good landfill.