Quotes About Politics

We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.

I don't have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

I felt that for 20 years, I was wooing the people of my country and asking them to like me as an actor, and when they liked me as an actor, I told them, 'Now, you like my politics.'

I will never join politics under any circumstances.

Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.

When you are in politics, and you are a genuine person who genuinely cares, then everything comes second.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.

The money in politics is a cash cow for the media.

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.

Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop?

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.

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

American politics is always an open competition.

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

I think that has to do with our perception of politics. There are nice politicians. There is something about this job that does take an extra bit of motivation to get out of bed in the morning.

I came into politics to fight lefties... That's where political fighting goes.