Politics Quotes
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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
Ike Barinholtz
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Own what you are, and I mean whether that's art, or whether that's fashion, or whether that's music, or whether that's acting, or whether that's politics, or whether that's literature; it's own what you are, and grab it, and, you know, be as prolific as possible.
Courtney Love
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I understand that the nature of politics sometimes involves fending off frivolous, anonymous allegations.
Sam Graves
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
J. B. Pritzker
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Anyone who can see as far as tomorrow in politics arouses the wrath of people who can see no farther than today.
Madame de Stael
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
Rand Paul
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But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
Imran Khan
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
Paddy Chayefsky
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Politics is a people business. I like people.
Laura Bush
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When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.
Maggie Gallagher
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Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
Maira Kalman
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I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.
Nandan Nilekani
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Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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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.
Barack Obama
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For some reason, men in politics seem to have a bunch of charisma, and women drop around their feet. I haven't noticed that so much for me and men.
Lara Giddings
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
Marat Safin
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We're seeing a reaction - and people taking to the streets with pots and pans - in areas where the independence movement isn't supposed to exist. People have to choose between one model and another. Everyone in Catalonia has realised that not taking part means ratifying the politics of repression of the Spanish government.
Carles Puigdemont
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
T. B. Joshua
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It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
Hans Eysenck
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The high point was that the people are really nice - despite the crazy politics - and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.
Gail Collins
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There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong
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The kind of cynical politics of divide and conquer, that's shameful stuff, and I don't know - people live their life like that, but I don't know how they look back and feel good about themselves.
Gavin Newsom