Quotes About Politics

Politics, or controversy, or party spirit, or worldliness, have eaten out the heart of lively piety in too many of us. The subject of personal godliness has fallen sadly into the background.

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.

A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.

It is unfair to expect a politician to live in private up to the statements he makes in public.

Country comes before politics.

American politics is a struggle, not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power houses.

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Especially being around young people, ... It helps put things in the proper perspective as you return back to the chaos of politics.

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.

I was a latecomer to politics. Maybe I'm just very slow. I got to everything when everyone else had left.

Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no credit to be won by timidity.

What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?

British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.

Mingling religion with politics may be disavowed and reprobated by every inhabitant of America.

I think the reason you see so many people dropping out of politics is because there's an anti-poetic strain in modern political discourse.

To be locked into partisan politics doesn't permit you to think clearly.

There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

In politics, purity is the enemy of victory.

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.

He that shall peruse the political pamphlets of any past reign will wonder why they were so eagerly read, or so loudly praised.

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

What is a left-wing socialist but a Marxist without a gun?