Politics Quotes
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Rock should never be in bed with politics.
Alice Cooper
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If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
Evan Bayh
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
Sean O'Casey
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All our lives we fought against exalting the individual, against the elevation of the single person, and long ago we were over and done with the business of a hero, and here it comes up again: the glorification of one personality. This is not good at all.
Vladimir Lenin
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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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from.
Thomas Sowell
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In politics, name recognition matters a lot.
Cenk Uygur
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People are increasingly becoming disappointed and disillusioned with politics and business, and especially with the market economy. They are meeting the physical needs of human beings, maybe. They are providing food. But not good and healthy food.
Satish Kumar
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If I do talk politics it's very surface, it's not in-depth.
Brad Williams
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Man is a predatory animal, and this aspect of his nature is nowhere better suited by environment than in the world of politics.
Enid Lyons
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Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'
William Lewis Safir
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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.
Bernard Crick
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I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.
Miriam Makeba
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Most Americans have never seen the ignorance, degradation, hunger, sickness, and futility in which many other Americans live...They won't become involved in economic or political change until something brings the seriousness of the situation home to them.
Shirley Chisholm
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In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.
Elena Ferrante
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What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.
Jules Michelet
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Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.
Steve Earle
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When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
Bill Clinton
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Since the business of politics is the conciliation of differing interests, justice must not merely be done, but to be seen to be done.
Bernard Crick
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I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
Norm MacDonald
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For the first time in history, the human species as a whole has gone into politics. Everyone is in the act, and there is no telling what may come of it.
Saul Bellow
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You have to look beyond your known limited experience. Politics should be based on compassion.
Swara Bhaskar
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Continuing to believe the same thing, even in the face of new evidence to the contrary, is the definition of insanity - except in politics where it's called leadership.
Scott Adams