Quotes About Politics

I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.

I have a bigger mission than any kind of specific politics, which is trying to restore the accessibility of rock 'n' roll.

I don't sense an [Barack] Obama party. I think politics is transactional for him.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that.

I was proud to have been the anti-establishment candidate after more than twenty years in politics, a small town guy fighting for the ordinary Canadian.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

When we refer to 'the biblical approach to economics' or the biblical response to politics' or 'biblical womanhood,' we're using the Bible as a weapon disguised as an adjective.

Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics.

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

[The director] has to, I feel, be one step back, not only from cinema, but also from politics and all these issues in order to tell and depict the situation that spreads to people.

It is great that soccer can unite people for one day. It is something politics has often tried, and we were able to do it today. All people became brothers.

We need to infuse politics with ideas like compassion and empathy, and a sense that we live in an interdependent world.

My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.

Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.

I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.

Our elections are free-it's in the results where eventually we pay.

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

Nothing is the matter with Mr. Gore except that he can't be elected.

It is... a just political maxim, that every man must be supposed a knave.

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.