Politics Quotes
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In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
Joseph Chamberlain
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The atmosphere in which social legislation is considered is not a friend of truth.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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All politics are local, whether in Kabul or in Canada.
Chris Alexander
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Creating the kind of connections between people that lead to collective civic action, political expression, community dialogue, shared cultural experiences.
Giovanni Morassutti
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I'm the daughter of one of the most long-standing senators in politics, and I have been given every opportunity that anyone could possibly dream of. I was given those opportunities as a result of the hard work from both sides of my family.
Meghan McCain
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Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.
William E. Simon
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I never bought a man who wasn't for sale.
William A. Clark
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Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.
Albert Camus
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I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.
William Weld
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The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging.
Molly Ivins
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We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.
Hillary Clinton
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The general will is always right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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So long as the system of competition in the production and exchange of the means of life goes on, the degradation of the arts will go on; and if that system is to last for ever, then art is doomed, and will surely die; that is to say, civilization will die.
William Morris
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The refusal of work and authority, or really the refusal of voluntary servitude, is the beginning of liberatory politics.
Antonio Negri
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Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.
Juan Vargas
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But now that foreign steel, and foreign cars, are moving into the United States in increased quantities at relatively low prices, the United States can no longer keep its business system fluid by inflation.
John Chamberlain
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You pick up very well-known books on Lincoln and you will find almost no reference to his long-term belief in colonization. Why? Because it doesn't fit the image of the Great Emancipator. It doesn't fit the retrospective view we want to have of Lincoln as the man who was the moralist in politics, who came into office committed to ending slavery and waited to sign this document.
Eric Foner
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
William Howard Taft
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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.
Albert Camus
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If a teacher misses a target, they change the teacher, If a minister misses a target, they change the target
Damian Green
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We cannot put cinema in parallel with the political, because politics are something dirty and cinema is not dirty.
Ali Suliman
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I had previously announced that I am above trends and leanings, above party politics and political parties. This is because I strive for the people as a whole to serve them.
Abd al-Karim Qasim
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The world would have peace if only men of politics would follow the Gospels.
Bridget of Sweden
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When Socialism comes, it may be in such a form that we won't like it.
William Morris