Quotes About Politics

At bottom, every state regards another as a gang of robbers who will fall upon it as soon as there is an opportunity.

Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.

Politics and self-interest have been so uniformly connected, that the world, from being so often deceived, has a right to be suspicious of public characters.

I never took that stuff personally when people said I was too young, too inexperienced. I get politics. I get attack ads. But they said 'mobbed up family.' That we were criminals. That kills me.

As a chef and activist, I'm particularly concerned with food politics issues such as the farm bill.

Art -- the fresh feeling, new harmony, the transforming magic which by means of myth brings back the scattered distracted soul from its modern chaos -- art, not politics, is the remedy.

Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.

India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die.

Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

I am interested in politics only in order to secure and protect freedom.

Actors should shut up about politics. They tend to be ill-informed finger-pointers who just cosy up to some flavour of-the-month liberal.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

Donald Rumsfeld. Love him or hate him, you've gotta admit: a lot of people hate him.

We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.

All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

It sucks. I used to be governor of New York.

Conservatives believe in equality of opportunity. Liberals believe in equality of outcome.

Vampire politics make the very complicated dance of manners that is werewolf protocol look like the Hokey Pokey.

Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.