Quotes About Politics

In politics, when you're explaining, you're losing.

During the 'ballad' years for me, the politics was latent; I was just falling in love with the ballads and my boyfriend. And there was the beauty of the songs.

Let's not be intimidated by secular people who disparage Christian involvement in politics.

Progressive politics is not something to be bolted on to another cause.

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably.

In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.

National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

If the way to do good to my country were to render myself popular, I could easily do it. But extravagant popularity is not the road to public advantage.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

We spend more money on antacids than we do on politics.

I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it's really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.

Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent.

I think everything has some politics to it. It's just whether or not it admits to it. Politics is weird. I don't even know what that means any more.

It's easy to follow national politics and weigh in on social media, but if I'm tweeting stuff about Chatham County, no one cares.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

I have real fears for Cuba based on the South American experience. Where you have had such a stern regime, as Fidel's [Castro], there is no culture of politics.

The tendency of the UN and its major supporters is to think good intentions and mild to rampant corruption are as good as actual results.

The golden rule has no place in a political campaign.

Politics doesn't have to be a drag. It can be positive, and it can be fun, and it can be inspiring.

The role of money in politics is terrible, particularly when you're running for president. You get a handful of billionaires who can basically buy the White House.

You roll back the stones, and you find slithering things. That is the world of Richard Nixon.

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington.