Quotes About Power

I don't think that Hollywood will have much to do with changing politics. Hollywood usually reflects things.

Chris Christie's rise in politics in New Jersey, in many ways, was built on his takedown of Charles Kushner. He got national headlines for that prosecution.

There aren't many idealists in politics.

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

A statesman makes the occasion, but the occasion makes the politician.

By general consent, he would have been capable of ruling, had he not ruled.

Benjamin Netanyahu, understands that the standing ovation he got in Congress this year was not for his politics. That ovation was bought and paid for by the Israel lobby.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

Diplomacy has more to do with (credible) threats than with sweet reason. And threats from America are a lot more credible, nowadays.

The political is personal.

Religion is often politics made sacred.

I could say much about politics, our only entertainment here, but you would not care a fig about that.

He sailed through American history like a steel ship loaded with monoliths of granite.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

Politics is a delicate business. I understand that well. But if a party is not willing to stand up for what is right, does it deserve to win back control of the government?

Politics is but a narrow field.

I could throw 56-pound words clear across the Grand Canyon. As a matter of course, I went into politics.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

A man never stoops so low as when he rises to the challenge of politics.

There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.