Quotes About Politics

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy.

I concern myself with Venezuela. However, some rightwing movements are transforming me into a pawn in the domestic politics of their countries, by making statements that are groundless.

I became a councillor back in 1971, so if by this stage in politics I'm making lots of big mistakes, then I shouldn't be here.

It's not that I'm not interested in politics, but rather, I think that the people who become politicians in Japan are not very dynamic. Honestly, I find business much more interesting than politics.

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

The Labour Party is going about the country stirring up apathy.

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man's politics, for the living.

A lot of times in politics you have people look you in the eye and tell you what's not on their mind.

In politics there is no right answer - and no final answer.

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.

Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces.

A movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.

My father was prime minister, and to take care of his home, to be his hostess, automatically meant to have my hands in politics - to meet people, to know their games, their secrets.

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.

In American religious history, theological qualms tend to get pushed aside when politics intervenes.

I'm Iranian and no matter what I do, I'm dealing with politics because especially my music, that it's a music that talks about peace, love, unity.

It's the last best trick of a losing Democrat, is to accuse the Republicans of racism.

Personally, I'd rather have pins stuck in my eyes than endure a conversation with John Kerry, but I'd love to hang with Bush.

in politics as in life, what is known is not necessarily what is believed, what is shown is not necessarily what is seen, and what is said is not necessarily what is heard.

Hillary Clinton follows a cardinal rule in politics - don't commit to a decision before you have to.

Politics cannot stop to study psychology Its methods are rough; its judgments rougher still.