Quotes About Politics

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

You can't create a successful politics of support for public education on the basis of asking voters not to care about skills, and tests that measure skills, at all.

The problem with party politics is that people get involved every two or four years and that is it. In the meantime, the legislature and Minnesota politics are on a separate track.

Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if youre one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing.

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body.

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

In a democracy, dynasty politics is wrong. We need to free the state and nation from it.

The Democratic Party's rigidly pro-choice stance is one of the more unyielding positions in contemporary American politics.

The effective strategies in politics are ones that are so clear and obvious that people can grasp it.

Washington D.C. politics is like Hollywood for ugly people.

How can a president not be an actor?

There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, Nettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear Of this vile politician, Bolingbroke.

I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.

Politics are not unlike war. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot from the hip.

The mixing of politics and business not only is detrimental to politics, as is frequently observed, but even much more so to business.

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

The Democrats and the Republicans are equally corrupt where money is concerned. It's only in the amount where the Republicans excel.

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.

The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-pères ont toujours tort.