Politics Quotes
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If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
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My morals went when the president got oral.
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What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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Bound together by our beliefs, we are like minded individuals, sharing a common vision, pushing toward a world rid of color lines.
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President Obama, right after the Gabby Gifford shooting said we need to usher in a new era of civil discourse in politics. But not heeding his own advice.
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I don't know a lot about politics but I have great trust in him as leader.
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I got quarters in my loafers trying to fight inflation when it only used to take a cent.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
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The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
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It is unnatural for a majority to rule, for a majority can seldom be organized and united for specific action, and a minority can.
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Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
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Some say let's not give them too much power. But we need power to do the things we believe in and change Israeli politics. In coalition talks, we don't want to have to compromise on what we believe in.
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I set out as a sort of self-dependent politician. My opinions were my own. I dashed at all prejudices. I scorned to follow anybodyin matter of opinion.... All were, therefore, offended at my presumption, as they deemed it.
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The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
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The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.
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The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone.
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It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
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I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol.
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I always had this feeling when writing about all politics... that when it's so lopsided, that if a newspaper or news organization has any weight whatsoever, it should automatically go to the other side.
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Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments.
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Cash is always the deciding factor in such matters of moral politics; nothing ever gets done unless motivated by commerce or greed.
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Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.
