Quotes About Politics

In politics, you have to compromise from morning to evening. Democracy is the art of compromise.

I don't like compromise. In politics, you have to always choose a compromise, and sometimes, that, I don't like.

There's so much compromise in politics. I'm not a good compromiser.

My nature is to compromise and get things done for the state.

Politics is compromise, by its very nature. But we never compromise on our values and beliefs.

Let's face it - Donald Trump is a very, very good con man.

The government can become so elitist and concentrate on elitist interests. To help the government, you must constantly hold its attention.

The Lib-Dems are sidekicks. They were born to be sidekicks and that's what they should concentrate on being.

We have tended in politics in this country to concentrate on the domestic, on the here and now - the 'what's in it for me'.

An election is supposed to be about our whole country - we can't just concentrate on those areas where people, for the most part, already agree with us.

My father was an MLA and I've grown up knowing the kind of stuff that goes behind the working of a party and the role of the party people, and I used to think that one day I too would be a part of it. But when acting happened, politics took a backseat in my mind and I concentrated more into building my acting career.

Left, right, populism... all are meaningless concepts.

Politics being done by BJP and Congress by leveling accusations at each other over India-China border issue is not in the interest of the nation. It is a matter of great concern.

In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.

One of the reasons why I'm speaking out is because I think that it's really concerning that no one has really investigated Cambridge Analytica and its role in the 2016 election.

Unfortunately, Republicans are too often tone-deaf to the concerns of black Americans.

If there are places where I didn't feel comfortable with the particular politics, then I just couldn't do a concert there.

America may be in a dour condition, but it is not going to elect a dour president.

This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.

Given the right conditions any society can turn against democracy.

How the PAP chooses to conduct its politics is something for the PAP to decide. The public are equally entitled to respond as they deem fit - within the remit of the law - and at the ballot box.

For all the banging from the Left that, you know, 'They don't care about people with pre-existing conditions' - There was never a day where our conference was willing to leave people out in the cold.

I confess I had butterflies doing the first BBC 'Politics Live' of 2020. It felt like the first day back at school.

I am confident that I can serve my country without being involved as the president of the country now.