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Quotes About Politics

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.
~ Charlie Pierce
The emperor would prefer the poet to keep away from politics, the emperor's domain, so that he can manage things the way he likes.
~ Chinua Achebe
I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business.
~ Dalai Lama
Politicians are dumb, but they can count to 50% plus one.
~ Will Rogers
.....science-based popular education can have an enormous impact on politics.
~ Carl Phillips
Donald Trump turned politics on its head.
~ Paul Ryan
I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features seems to me to be narrowing even from what it was.
~ William Gibson
The man is the Piltdown Man of modern politics.
~ Charlie Pierce
I'm not from the arts, I'm a law professor. But I think we need more poetry in politics.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Women have more inner power for creation, starting from family and home and ending with professional activity and politics.
~ Dalia Grybauskaite
Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.
~ Wendell Phillips
The most valuable function performed by the federal government is entertainment.
~ Dave Barry
In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.
~ Robert J. Samuelson
It is hard to know what Sarah Palin means in Republican politics anymore.
~ Rachel Maddow
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
~ Paul Lynde
There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.
~ David Shuster
That's just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.
~ Dick Costolo
I don't like my politicians entertaining me and I don't like my entertainers politicianing me.
~ Craig Ferguson
When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.
~ David Brooks
I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that.
~ Zephyr Teachout
Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.
~ Ronald Reagan
Spin is overrated. It is strategy, not spin, that wins elections.
~ Dick Morris
If you're going to be a sexual predator, be a Democrat.
~ Dick Morris