Politics Quotes
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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."
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I've always told my children that Americans will tell you pretty much anything, but that convention dictates that we don't like to talk money or politics.
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The purity of the critical ermine, like that of the judicial, is often soiled by contact with politics.
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They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
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I'm very struck by what you can do in a classroom. I've got 200 students. You don't do partisan politics in a classroom, that's not appropriate. But you want to give them a strong sense that these are the issues that matter.
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Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means.
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The ability to change one's views without losing one's seat is the mark of a great politician.
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Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail.
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Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart.
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I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people.
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Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help.
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I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.
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The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.
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The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
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Some people are marching together and some on their own. Others are running, the smaller ones crawl. But some sit in silence.
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I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.
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A man who is not interested in politics is not doing his patriotic duty toward maintaining the constitution of the United States.
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Jail is just another micro-society. It just happens that here, the problems are far more out in the open, we don't live with the facades of lies that democracy or capitalism creates for us.
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I care deeply about women's rights. I have been an outspoken advocate for them for many years and as secretary of state I carried that message around the world because empowering women, providing for women's rights, their full participation in society, politics, the economy is not only a matter of individuals being able to chart their own futures. It's good for democracy and it's good for peace and prosperity.
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If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise.
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Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
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It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?
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I never, ever get involved in politics. With politics you are not allowed to be honest. I don't have time to deal with that. I would rather work with kids.
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I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.
