Politics Quotes
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Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.
William E. Gladstone
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Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
Sidney Hillman
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Partisan politics is not my passion.
Raja Krishnamoorthi
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A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
Bernard Crick
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Theodore Senior belonged to a class and a generation that considered politics to be a dirty business, best left, like street cleaning, to malodorous professionals.
Edmund Morris
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A leader has to lead otherwise he has no business in politics.
Harry S Truman
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There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
George Washington
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Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
Marianne Williamson
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I always say, when they ask me about American politics, is for you guys to decide who you elect.
Tony Blair
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Having the democrats watch your money is like having Michael Vick watch your dog for the weekend
Tim Pawlenty
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The eternal sea of politics is best left to politicians.
Wayne Gerard Trotman
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Science really creates wealth and opportunity which did not exist before. Whereas the old order was based on competition, the new order of science makes possible, for the first time, a cooperative creative effort in which every one is the gainer and no one the loser.
Karl Taylor Compton
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That the king can do no wrong is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution.
William Blackstone
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I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron
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Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
Ridley Scott
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Political institutions are a superstructure resting on an economic foundation.
Vladimir Lenin
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The optimistic side of me hopes that the majority of people look at what's going on in politics today and in the world, in general, and just say, "We've had enough."
Edwin Hodge
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The categories within which the colonists thought about the social foundations of politics were inheritances from classical antiquity, reshaped by seventeenth century English thought.
Bernard Bailyn
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The sobering anwer is yes - the white community is so entitled because ... it is the advanced race ... it is more important ... to affirm and live by civilized standards ... than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority.
William Francis Buckley
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I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.
Harvey Fierstein
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Entirely new concepts are very rare in politics.
Hannah Arendt
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Politics in Iran is not played like American football. It's played like chess. There are multiple moves. You're jumping ahead. And a lot of it is very subtle, and it catches you by surprise later on. So I don't want to go overboard on this.
Gary Sick
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Animals are complicated and so is the animal-rights opposition. It's hard to read motives in animals, and hard to read motives in politics.
Bette Ford
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Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
Vladimir Lenin