Politics Quotes
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Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics?
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The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
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The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.
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People expect to see white guys, Sunday afternoon, on 'Face the Nation.' And people with a direct interest in politics do watch those shows. But not a lot of normal people watch those shows. But, 'Real Time With Bill Maher,' it's unbelievable how many people watch that.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
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I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
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Government and politics isn't like a reality TV show. It's not about voting the bad guys out of the house. You know, it's about what do we need to take our country or our state or our city forward? And people, frankly, would be well advised to really get back into understanding politics.
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Women's bodies have become a real battleground for politics.
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Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.
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No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics.
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No doubt the ridiculous politicians are right to like politics. They have found careers in which success can be achieved by being ridiculous. Imagine Jimmy Carter or George W. Bush rising to the top of any other profession.
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I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?
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Freedom includes the right to say what others may object to and resent... The essence of citizenship is to be tolerant of strong and provocative words.
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When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even predetermined for it. If someone is modest and does not yearn for power, he is certainly not ill-equipped to engage in politics; on the contrary, he belongs there. What is needed in politics is not the ability to lie but rather the sensibility to know when, where, how and to whom to say things.
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Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
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I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.
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But it's also the beginning of another level of liberation for her Eleanor Roosevelt, because when she returns to New York, she gets very involved in a new level of politics. She meets Esther Lape and Elizabeth Read, and becomes very involved in the women's movement, and then in the peace movement. And ironically, the years of her greatest despair become also the years of her great liberation.
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The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
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I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.
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I think it's incredibly important to vote because politics is for the people, and we shouldn't leave it just to the parties because then we're in some kind of helpless society where you have no say in anything and in things that are going to affect you. Government was formed to represent the people, but if you don't vote, then you're not being represented.
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The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
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Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
