Politics Quotes
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Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
Theresa May -
You know what? I think the American people are a little pissed, and I think they're pissed at both parties - I think they're really pissed at both parties - and it will be reflected during election time.
Whoopi Goldberg
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Political organizations are formed to keep the powerful in power.
Shirley Chisholm -
Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Paul Lynde -
The purpose of politics is to give people tools to make the most of their lives.
Bill Clinton -
I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.
Swara Bhaskar -
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
Eve Ensler
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There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.
Eugene McCarthy -
So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democratic chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is.
George Will -
Everything is so weird in politics that it's very hard to be funny about it, I think.
Tom Lehrer -
The sequester has forced liberals to clarify their conviction that whatever the government's size is at any moment, is the bare minimum neccessary to forestall intolerable suffering.
George Will -
He wasn't used to being criticized, and he never did get it through his head that's what politics is all about. He was used to getting his ass kissed.
Harry S Truman -
If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
Brad Williams
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I am opposed to term limits because if we did not have seasoned professionals, we would not have the good government that we have.
George Will -
Good economics is good politics.
Paul Keating -
In politics, name recognition matters a lot.
Cenk Uygur -
Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
Sean O'Casey -
You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.
Molly Ivins -
Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.
Keith Best