Quotes About Politics

What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.

The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.

In hip-hop, as in neoliberalism, economics bullied politics out of the picture.

Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

The extent to which lawyers and judges are interfering in politics is something that concerns many people.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Without alienation, there can be no politics.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It's collegiate. There's not much politics, and we like decent people. We don't like arrogance or bullies.

I don't know a lot about politics.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.