Quotes About Politics

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

I don't want the United States to be Athens on the Potomac.

Ezra Pound was a crackpot on social and political issues, but he knew what he was talking about in matters of the written language.

No ifs, no buts - we will not share the pound if Scotland separates from the U.K.

Candidates matter. Campaigns matter. 'He can win' or 'She can't win' is up there with, 'I'm going to lose 10 pounds, win the lottery, and live forever.' Saying it does not make it so.

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

I didn't have any personal goals when I came, but after being in politics - after seeing people, their difficulties, their wants - I think our goal has to be to eliminate poverty from India.

While the religious divisions in our world are self-evident, many people still imagine that religious conflict is always caused by a lack of education, by poverty, or by politics.

I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely, and I found that out when I was Attorney General in Massachusetts.

What is considered 'conservative' and what is considered 'liberal' changes in any given era.

There's an assumption if you have any faith you vote this way, you vote that way, or you're this, or you're absolutely a conservative, and those just aren't all true.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

There is clearly a move among some tea-party people, not all of them, to always elect or nominate the most conservative person, and under that scenario, I don't think Scott Brown would probably be their first choice.

I'm basically a libertarian, and I'm a conservative on economic matters, and I'm a social liberal.

My goal has always been to figure out how we can advance the conservative cause.

I'm more the conscience of the conservative than I am someone looking for consensus.

Everybody who is a Republican wants to call themselves conservative even if they don't necessarily vote that way.

It's very easy for the candidates to talk about how conservative they are, how conservative they will be.

It's weird: The leader of the Conservative Party in England is two years younger than me, and I still don't really feel like a responsible adult.

UKIP's biggest fight is with the Conservative Party.

I'm sort of the Antichrist to the Conservative Party.

The paternalism of the Conservative party is breathtaking.

Straight out of college, I worked at the Conservative Party but that was just a couple of years.