Quotes About Politics

For all the flailing and huffing and puffing, there is a kind of fatality about the process of war-making and the excuses we find for it, the consolation of belligerence in politics.

I've always followed politics, and I think politics is everybody's business because we're electing someone who's going to be making important decisions that will affect all of our lives.

We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.

New York has total depth in every area. Washington has only politics; after that, the second biggest thing is white marble.

It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party seeking a pro-life, free-trading, non-protectionist deficit hawk.

This self-defeating behavior, so the argument goes, must be the result of warped domestic politics.

I'm old enuf to remember when Dems considered a UN resolution and an actual coalition nothing more than Bushy McHitler going it alone.

This has always been the way of presidential politics. The president rises above the fray while his surrogates go on the attack. They throw the spears and fling the mud; he sits upon the throne.

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

Paralysis of leadership is due in part to the unseen grip of the special interests.

I don't think politics is any longer about a conversation with the country.

Of course, it's a mystery to me why any American who can't be bothered to pay attention to politics unless Pamela Anderson is discussing it should be welcome in that conversation.

Everyone understands that [democrat Senator Harry Reid] is deliberately lying. The man reads his lies from prepared texts. You can't read from a script and then claim you misspoke.

The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics

I think it's a terrible system, but money in politics is like water running downhill -- it finds its way.

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.

Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.

I got into politics when I was eight years old.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

It's a no-win situation with politics, it's always going to be stressful. I'm more into the comedy of life.

It's I politics that men are always aggravating the hopeless tangle of their laws, obscuring the simplest principles and making a mockery of liberty.

The momentum today behind the idea of a new global reserve currency reflects, in effect, the rise of the rest in world politics and economics, led by China.