Quotes About Politics

Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.

It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.

NOMINATE, v. To designate for the heaviest political assessment. To put forward a suitable person to incur the mudgobbling and deadcatting of the opposition.

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

That's probably the most boring conversation you could hear - an actor talk about politics. I won't go there.

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

There is a tendency to think that if we engage too directly with moral questions in politics, that's a recipe for disagreement, and for that matter, a recipe for intolerance and coercion.

What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

The way your parents try to talk to you about politics and pull you to their side, that's an exciting moment in your family.

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Only two things ever stop the government from doing anything: money and politics

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook.

Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.

I don't think Bush was legitimately elected President.

I quit politics because I hated it.

I'm so unhappy with electoral politics that I switched to sports radio.

I haven't been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.

Morality has nothing in common with politics.

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.