Quotes About Politics

Nothing is as depressing as absolute logic. Look at the maze of French politics perpetrated by a logical people.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

One thing I've noticed about politics is that these guys have pretty thick hides.

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!

We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.

Everyone's always told about politics you have to be practical, but I actually think that's not true, you actually have to hold to a dream... and desire is part of that dream.

Quite obviously power will continue to play a central role in global politics as it always does. But usually there is something else.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

There is no great danger to politics in the desire for certainty at any price.

The reason so many problems do not get solved in Washington is that solving those problems is not the No. 1 priority: Re-election is.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

Government has come to be a trade, and is managed solely on commercial principles. A man plunges into politics to make his fortune, and only cares that the world shall last his days.

Be a politician; no training necessary.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

I think there's this great disconnect between youth culture and politics, which is a product of how our capitalist system works.

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Politics are not my arena. Music is.

It is, of course, the merest truism to say a party is of use only so far as it serves the nation.

It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.

There are two things that you have to lie to get through. One is politics, and the other is marriage.

Most complaints, you know, aren't won or lost on their own merits, but rather on larger issues--politics and the position of the planets.

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

Politics imagined as direct agency, whether by voting or by participating in politics, you can think you're not political because you don't do anything between elections.