Quotes About Politics

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

If I've tried to bring anything to federal politics, it's the idea that hope and optimism should be at their heart.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

I have very intense conversations with friends, people I really interconnect with. We talk about politics, important things. I like to talk about ideas and get people to be specific.

Whatever I may believe in theology, I do not believe in the doctrine of vicarious atonement in politics.

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an exile: and, prophetically, a repudiated one.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

Politics has always been a mud fight - better that citizens jump in the trough than lose interest.

I think the politics have gotten better in the United States, which makes it easier to pass legislation, budgets and treaties.

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

I've got no problem with religion if you're going to use it for the good, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King. But that's rarely the case when it comes to politics. It's usually used as a con.

For some reason I get advertised when I travel as a political comedian, which I'm not. Sometimes I talk about it and sometimes I don't.

When politics is elevated over business, economic disaster follows.

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

In a Republican district I was a Republican. In a Democratic district I was a Democrat. And in a doubtful district, I was Doubtful. But I was always for Erie.

John Wayne was never shy about that fervor, but because he was never overly zealous about his politics, and of course his status as a movie, he was embraced by both the right and the left.

People who declare that they belong to no party certainly do not belong to ours.

The politics of courtiers resemble their shadows; they cringe and turn with the sun of the day.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.