Quotes About Politics

In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.

We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Politics is, by its nature, not my favorite thing because it's more about dividing people, not bringing them together.

The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.

In Indian politics, deception seems a byword. I'll have none of that.

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.

In 2012, I had joined BJP to get some help for my schools for the orphans that are run in Delhi and Kolkata. However, no help came to my school. So, I have not been in any party politics.

I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

The lifespan of faith and culture is much more than the ones who play politics in its name.

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.

If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.

I don't decide my politics based on the flavour of the month.

When I was a CIA officer we would have meetings and you don't know what people's politics are... We were there to serve a mission that we were focused on that mission.

Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party's loyalists in the fold.

You should absolutely get involved, especially those local politics like school board seats. That's really where America happens.

Partly, identity politics is a result of economic failure.

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.'

I guess I don't like the people in politics very much, to be blunt.

Right to Information is a small concrete step in making our polity more democratic.

It seems the more shallow and mean the candidates are the more they rise in the polls.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.

When it comes to scaring the bourgeoisie into showing up at the polls, nothing works better than negative advertising.