Politics Quotes
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
Irvine Welsh
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
Mandy Patinkin
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
Taiye Selasi
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
Daniel Barenboim
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I loved every day I was in politics. But I got out at the right time. I never miss it.
Abraham A. Ribicoff
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Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
Larry Hogan
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A politician... one that would circumvent God.
William Shakespeare
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
Carl Andre
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
Kapil Sibal
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I think the media loves taking the most absurd clips for a sport that has become congressional politics.
Kal Penn
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Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.
Darryl Worley
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My parents were political, so it's definitely in my bones. Wherever I am, I always seem to get involved with politics. I think, once it's in your bloodstream, it's always there. I love it.
Saffron Burrows
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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
Nate Silver
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We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody's interest.
Viktor Orban
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In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
Park Geun-hye
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
J. C. Watts
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Today was to be the day when the gun was to be finally taken out of Irish politics.
Ian Paisley
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
Pat Toomey
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I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.
Fidel Castro
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When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
Patrick Lencioni
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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!
Maryon Pearson
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People in Israel are sick and tired of the old politics.
Yair Lapid