Politics Quotes
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I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
Maggie Williams
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
Hamilton Jordan
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In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
Aaron Schock
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If 10% is good enough for Jesus, it oughta be enough for Uncle Sam.
Ray Stevens
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The way I see politics is, I don't think it's cynical to accept the fact politicians are human beings, that they're flawed, and they represent the best and the worst of us.
Beau Willimon
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
P. J. O'Rourke
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge
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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.
N. T. Wright
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A standard line, promoted by people like Clement Greenberg, is that politics contaminates art, and Manet is often cited as an example of art for art's sake.
Hans Haacke
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What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel
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I full well realize that politics is a rough and tumble business, but politics should not be reduced to lobbing partisan hand grenades. Politics is not war. Terrorism is.
Pat Roberts
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Maajid Nawaz
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
Patrick Murphy
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If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
Karl Rove
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I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.
Nandan Nilekani
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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.
Ed Gillespie
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Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
Adam Michnik
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Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
Nandan Nilekani
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You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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I certainly wasn't a fan of Thatcher's politics. People liked to label us as children of Thatcher. What nonsense. The real children of Thatcher came in the 1990s, and had no interest in politics. The Oasis, Britpop scene.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
Natalie Dormer
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Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches.
Saul Bellow
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It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
Abba Eban
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
Salman Khurshid