Quotes About Politics

I can remember only a small handful of instances in which I talked about politics with my parents. I remember my parents telling me that Daniel Ellsberg was a hero when I was six years old.

Politics can be a factor neither in shaping Islam nor directing Muslims' acts and attitudes in Islam's name.

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.

The only truly shocking thing about last Tuesday's election is that the Democrats didn't do far worse, or as badly as they deserved.

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Donald Trump has been rewriting the rules since he got into politics.

The language of politics is poetry, not prose. Jackson is poetry. Cuomo is poetry. Dukakis is a word processor.

Fascism isn't a libertarian doctrine! It just isn't, never will be and it can't be cast as one.

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

In politics, as in fishing, you don't have to be a genius. You just have to be smarter than the fish.

I came to politics later in life so I bring a different life experience to it.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

Too many people, because they were white and poor, black and rich, or just plain busy with something other than politics, have felt they had no voice in our government.

We live in an age where in politics, people can't disagree with each other without good faith being questioned, there is always an ulterior motive - in it for the money, advance a career.

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

We live in a country where there is a lot of animosity. If your politics is radical it antagonises. People might think I am overconfident. I look petulant when I stand my ground.

For Conservatives, seeing is believing; for liberals, believing is seeing.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

I have never thought of my life as divided between poetry and politics.

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

I care about politics just like any other citizen. I'm against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.

Barack Obama said today that politics has become too gummed up by money and influence ... and then he had to leave to attend a fundraiser.

Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.