Politics Quotes

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

A week is a long time in politics.

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed.

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

My college, Fitzwilliam, was pretty good but unfashionable and I lived in digs so I was not part of the cloistered 'old college' environment, which frankly was a bit intimidating. But I worked hard and settled in by exploring politics and girls.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

My first real writing job was at 'Rolling Stone,' so I wrote about rock-and-roll and politics and the like. At the time, I really didn't know what I wanted to write, and I did a bunch of investigative journalism.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb.

There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.

Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states.

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

Good government is good politics.

Consciousness permits us to develop the instruments of culture - morality and justice, religion, art, economics and politics, science and technology. Those instruments allow us some measure of freedom in the confrontation with nature.

When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.

We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.

Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.

It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.

With respect to Barack Obama, let's face it; Barack Obama is an iconic figure in the African-American community. We respect that. We understand that. African-Americans are going to vote for the first black president, especially when he happens to share the liberal politics on economic issues that many in that community hold.