Quotes About Politics

A man whose business it is to cook for all comers can have no political opinions.

Yesterday, at the Italian Opera, I could feel some one was looking at me; my eyes were drawn, as by a magnet, to two wells of fire, gleaming like carbuncles in a dim corner of the orchestra. Henarez never moved his eyes from me. The wretch had discovered the one spot from which he could see me—and there he was. I don't know what he may be as a politician, but for love he has a genius.

Ambitious men ought to follow curved lines, the shortest road in politics.

None but the dupes, who fondly imagine that they are useful to their like, can interest themselves in laying down rules for political guidance amid events which neither they nor any one else foresees, nor ever will foresee.

People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.

Three months is a lifetime in politics

In the end, ... that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism, or do we participate in a politics of hope?

That's what I'm opposed to. A dumb war. A rash war. A war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington.

Politics didn't lead me to working people. Working people led me into politics.

There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.

Change is the order of the day.... And change means change the Congress.

I would not run for president. I really like what I'm doing now. People say I'm giving them energy and hope.

Metaphysics—objective reality; Epistemology—reason; Ethics—self-interest; Politics—capitalism.

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

America is addicted to wars of distraction.

I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed up to hit a pedestrian or, or course, stop to kick a pedestrian who has already been hit. From which it followed, of course, that one would never ever -- on pain of deletion from dozens of Christmas card lists across the country -- vote Republican.

We can hardly pride ourselves on being the world's preeminent democracy, after all, if the large numbers of citizens spend half their waking hours in what amounts, in plain terms, to a dictatorship.

the Afro-American experience, rejecting the false history, spurious logic, and expedient politics that collapse the situations of Afro-Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, and indigenous Americans into a single category. He correctly insists that there is no counterpart for any other descent group to the one-drop or any-known-ancestry rule that, with minor exceptions, has historically identified Afro-Americans.

has the American presidency become the most impossible job in the world?