Quotes About Politics

I never thought of politics as a profession.

I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential.

Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood.

Politics, as a profession, is not about making the right political decision. It's about making the right decision and then managing the political consequences.

Politics is ultimately not that complicated a profession; it's where the mediocre distinguish themselves.

I am very happy being an actor. I am doing very well for myself in the acting profession. I am not going to join politics.

Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.

Different people choose different clothes and it correlates with their politics.

Selling and telling are two different things. In politics, we sell ideas.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

Running a democratic country is one of the most difficult things for any government.

Washington culture has always had a difficult time acknowledging untruth.

Liberals spend a whole lot of time trying to convince us they love teachers, but dig even skin deep into the matter, and it becomes evident that liberals hate teachers.

I have way too shady a background to get into politics. I was a crazy kid - I was in bands, and I don't think I'd get very far before people started digging up stuff I didn't want them to see.

I'm a sort of political person, and I feel that there's a kind of ineradicably political dimension to theater, to all theater, whether it's overtly political or not.

People in Canada are starting to see all of the dimensions of the Green Party.

Let's diminish the impact and influence D.C. has on the decisions that we make here in Colorado.

Diplomacy and coalition-building are hard work and not easy for any president.

We must be sure that Canadians realize that our political differences with the Communist government in China has nothing to do with the country of China, or its people. The millions of Canadians with Chinese ancestry are not connected to our diplomatic differences with Beijing.

When your country is in dire straits, it doesn't matter whether you're a social democrat or not.

I care deeply about the direction of our country.

If the administration wants cooperation, it will have to begin to move in our direction.

I think it is something that is so important, to be very aware of the direction in which the 21st century is going with all this blind faith in democracy. And by the way, I am not against democracy - I am against the blind faith that is being put in democracy.

Why shouldn't a child look to want to be a political figure, to change our nation, to lead us the right directions?