Politics Quotes
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
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Everybody that's trying to get anything progressive done in this country knows that the biggest barrier is getting money out of politics.
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The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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It's important not to take yourself too seriously, ... and I think sometimes people take us a lot more seriously than we take ourselves, especially when it comes to politics. Politics, for me, is a reflection of the world I live in. But love is just as important as politics to me. They both exist in the world, you know? And if you don't reflect the entire world around you, then you're leaving something out.
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If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.
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Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all alike. As long as they find themselves in the middle of it, they say they are sorry that all their time is taken up by politics. But as soon as they have lost and are out - oh, how terrible for them!
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If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.
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From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
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In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
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Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.
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There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right.
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That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics.
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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.
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When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn't vote for you.
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Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
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Television is democracy at its ugliest.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'
