Quotes About Politics

Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.

I'm not talking ideas, or even presentation. It's like in politics: You have to sell something to become an electric player - like your skin or your heart.

If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.

In politics, there are different categories of friendship. My friendship with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, for example .

A man in his own secret meditation / Is lost amid the labyrinth that he has made / In art or politics.

It is a game, the whole ball of wax is a game - your life, my life, politics, economy, hunger.

Funny to watch these Senators switching back and forth on Prohibition. Politics is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to see what your convictions are for that day.

Our leaders are the finest men, that's whey we elect them again and again.

One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one.

Are the Democrats going to dance the mandate Macarena?

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

I think I could argue that the press has more impact on politics than corporations.

Revenge is not a good thing. Revenge is like politics: one thing always leads to another until bad has become worse, and worse has become worst.

Sound doctrine is sound politics.

You must survive with grace. You must do so gallantly. How archaic these terms seem to us in our modern world. There is little grace or gallantry in commerce or politics and not much in art.

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

[On going into politics:] My husband went to bed with Debbie Reynolds and he woke up with Eleanor Roosevelt.

Politics is the shadow cast on society by big business.

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray.

Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

All politics is a struggle for power; the ultimate kind of power is violence.

I think politics come out of psychology.

A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.