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Quotes About Politics

The justification of majority rule in politics is not to be found in its ethical superiority.
~ Walter Lippmann
There is a lack of leadership outside the Beltway, outside of politics.
~ Danny Glover
The world's politics are in turmoil, not to mention the Mideast, where the US has mounted attacks from Libya to Iraq to Syria, and ISIS is attacking governments in today's pipeline rivalry.
~ Michael Hudson
Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in politics.
~ Ted Nordhaus
Not all negativity is bad. In politics, it's a necessary clarifying tool.
~ Jacob Weisberg
People who give money in large amount in politics are basically not altruistic.
~ David Brooks
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
~ Joe Eszterhas
John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante
~ Eleanor Clift
Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.
~ Plutarch
Tikka Khan won't try to stick his nose in politics.
~ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue in the American, not the British, sense as deep ultramarine, and its manners are studiously polite.
~ Jonathan Raban
With all their attack ads, the President is just throwing away money...and he's pretty experienced at that.
~ Paul Ryan
One of the things that could be exciting about this next phase of Canadian politics is if we could maybe have co-leaders.
~ Avi Lewis
It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
~ Nigel Rees
I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.
~ Connie Nielsen
I doubt that I will get involved with politics. That's something I don't have in me.
~ Pedro Martinez
The thing with that word "establishment" is a four-letter word in the 2016 politics, so toxic, so pejorative that pretty much no one wants to be associated with it.
~ Chris Hayes
The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.
~ Robert Kane Pappas
People power. It has no limits. In politics, every politician in Ukraine is afraid of that. They know, if people go to the streets, nobody feels safe.
~ Vitali Klitschko
I'll be active in politics through PACs at a later date.
~ Donald Trump
I think the presidency is much too serious a thing to just play politics with.
~ Chris Christie
Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep.
~ John F. Kennedy
The politics, I don't understand it, I'm not happy, don't feel good about it.
~ Neil Young
Live fire cooking and barbecue have been so intimately linked with human evolution and history and politics. Everything we do, barbecue informs it in some way.
~ Steven Raichlen