TOP 30 politics QUOTES (of 1000)

For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, 'hold office'; everyone of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.p. 104

— Margaret Thatcher politics

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

— Charles de Gaulle politics

I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income.

— George Orwell politics

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

— Plato politics

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

— pope john paul ii politics

As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother.

— Benazir Bhutto politics

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

— barack obama politics

A segregated school system produces children who, when they graduate, graduate with crippled minds. But this does not mean that a school is segregated because it’s all black. A segregated school means a school that is controlled by people who have no real interest in it whatsoever. Let me explain what I mean. A segregated district or community is a community in which people live, but outsiders control the politics and the economy of that community. They never refer to the white section as a segregated community. It’s the all-Negro section that’s a segregated community. Why? The white man controls his own school, his own bank, his own economy, his own politics, his own everything, his own community; but he also controls yours. When you’re under someone else’s control, you’re segregated.

— Malcolm X politics

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons

— Ernest Hemingway politics

"Then there are guys who say 'I have never fantasized about being with a man.' They are lying. And the least offensive men I've been with in terms of their sexual politics and how they view me as a woman, have been men who have either slept with men, or at least kissed or held a man once. It opens up your thinking. You don't think that women are less-than you are."

— Madonna politics

In the Reagan years, more federal debt was added than in the entire prior history of the United States.Richard Darman Reagan adviser, Whos in Control? Polar Politics and the Sensible Center

— Ronald Reagan politics

It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

— Bob Geldof politics

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

— Mao Zedong politics

I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, ’Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.’

— george clooney politics

I do not give a damn about the dead. They died for the [Communist] Party and the Party can decide what it wants. I practice a live man’s politics, for the living.

— Jean Paul Sartre politics

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.

— Ambrose Bierce politics

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

— Napoleon I of France politics

Is sex dirty? Only if it's done right. They called me mad... But it was I - yes I - who discovered the link between excessive masturbation and entry into politics! When it comes to sex there are certain things that should always be left unknown, and with my luck, they probably will be.

— Woody Allen politics

What strength belongs to every plant and animal in nature. The tree or the brook has no duplicity, no pretentiousness, no show. It is, with all its might and main, what it is, and makes one and the same impression and effect at all times. All the thoughts of a turtle are turtles, and of a rabbit, rabbits. But a man is broken and dissipated by the giddiness of his will ; he does not throw himself into his judgments; his genius leads him one way but 't is likely his trade or politics in quite another.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson politics

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

— Pierre Trudeau politics

Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body. They are infra-human, a kind of vegetation. I sometimes awake to a half-consciousness of them going on about me, as a man may become conscious of some of the processes of digestion in a morbid state, and so have the dyspepsia, as it is called.

— Henry David Thoreau politics

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

— Will Rogers politics

We mean by "politics" the people's business — the most important business there is.

— Adlai Stevenson politics

is the archtypical extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead so doing something worthwhile for his country. So maybe he owes all of us an apology...

— P. J. O'Rourke politics

Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, most of them imaginary.

— H. L. Mencken politics

A typical vice of American politics — the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement.

— Theodore Roosevelt politics

On the fifth day the Governor of the town called all the tribal chieftains to an audience in the market square, to hear their grievances. He didn't always do anything about them, but at least they got heard, and he nodded a lot, and everyone felt better about it at least until they got home. This is politics.

— Terry Pratchett politics

The lives of other people seemed even more farcical than his own. It astonished him that as farcical as most people's live were, they generally gave no sign of it. Why was it that it was he not they who had decided to shoot himself? How did they manage to deceive themselves and even appear to live normally, work as usual, play golf, tell jokes, argue politics? Was he crazy or was it rather the case that other people went to any length to disguise from themselves the fact that their lives were farcical? He couldn't decide.

— Walker Percy politics

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions, and consequently of no use to a good king or a good ministry; for which reason Courts are so overrun with politics.

— Jonathan Swift politics

...from politics, it was an easy step to silence.

— Jane Austen politics

He reduced everything to politics; he was also unalterably of the Left. His line may have been unpopular or unfashionable, but he followed it unhesitatingly; in fact it was an obsession. He could not blow his nose without moralising on conditions in the handkerchief industry.

— Cyril Connolly politics

With regard to politics and the character of princes and great men, I think I am very moderate. My views of things are more conformable to Whig principles; my representation of persons to Tory prejudices. Nothing can so much prove that men commonly regard more persons than things, as to find that I am commonly numbered among the Tories.

— David Hume politics

... name association was big, as were my presumed interests in vaudeville and politics. In St. Louis thewas characterized as "very ", while ina young man defined it as "the pierced eyebrow of the Republican party".

— David Sedaris politics

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.

— Bob Dylan politics

This is bigger than politics; this is about saving lives, and I must confess I’m getting a huge kick out of it.

— George H. W. Bush politics

As far as culture and politics are concerned, the important theme is long-attention-span vs. short-attention-span thinking. I'm sure that your readers can think of any number of ways in which having a longer attention span can be useful. But I'll name one. Bankers with long attention spans don't lend money to people who can't pay it back. If we had more bankers who adopted a long-term view of their responsibilities, we might not be in the middle of a financial crisis that is blowing away .

— Neal Stephenson politics

We, holding Art in our hands, confidently consider ourselves to be its masters; boldly we direct it, we renew, reform and manifest it; we sell it for money, use it to please those in power; turn to it at one moment for amusement — right down to popular songs and night-clubs, and at another — grabbing the nearest weapon, cork or cudgel — for the passing needs of politics and for narrow-minded social ends. But art is not defiled by our efforts, neither does it thereby depart from its true nature, but on each occasion and in each application it gives to us a part of its secret inner light.

— Alexander Solzhenitsyn politics

Why one writes is a question I can answer easily, having so often asked it of myself. I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me — the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

— AnaЇs Nin politics

Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics, Charles Scribner's Sons (1932)

— Reinhold Niebuhr politics

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics.

— Albert Schweitzer politics

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. (1 July 1940)

— Eleanor Roosevelt politics

I'm not a political person. ... I don't understand politics, I don't understand the concept of two sides and I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground, but it never seems to come to the middle ground and it's very frustrating watching it and seemingly we're not moving forward. Some change, simple, simple really, relatively speaking, and we're going forwards somewhere, you know? It could be a beautiful place. There's many little obstacles and there's many, many people that are just opposed and we're not going forward.

— David Lynch politics

I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment. I don't take art as seriously as politics. I suppose you are a fool to do it [express a political view as an artist], but if you happen to be more interested in the political question, than the size of your audience, then it doesn't matter. I don't regard my career as something so precious that it comes before my convictions.

— Orson Welles politics

The atrocities are, for me, the most horrible part of the accusation in this trial. They thought that I took it lightly or laughed about it or some such nonsense, in court. That is definitely a mistake. I am the type of person who is naturally against such things and my own psychological reaction is to laugh or smile in the face of adversity. Perhaps that explains my attitude in court. Besides, I was not to blame for these horrors. It's not just that I am a hard man because of my long experience in the army and in politics. It's true that I saw plenty in the First World War and during the air raids and at the front in this war. But I was always a person who felt the suffering of others. To paint me as an unfeeling ogre who laughs in court at the atrocities is stupid.

— Hermann G¶ring politics

'Liberal' comes from the Latin liberalis, which means pertaining to a free man. In politics, to be liberal is to want to extend democracy through change and reform. One can see why the word had to be erased from our political lexicon.

— Gore Vidal politics

[An elaborated culture has a] density, complexity, and historical-semantic value that is so strong as to make politics possible... 's insight is to have recognised that subordination, fracturing, diffusion, reproducing, as much as producing, creating, forcing, guiding, are necessary aspects of elaboration.

— Edward Said politics

I am saying what I believe. And I'm being drawn into the political process because of what I believe and what I've said about it. So it's precisely the opposite of a man like Tom DeLay, who is only motivated by politics and says whatever he needs to say to get the political purpose. And so, you know, it couldn't be more diametrically opposed, and I couldn't be more opposed than I am to Tom DeLay. You know, Wolf, when our airmen were flying over Kosovo, Tom DeLay led the House Republicans to vote not to support their activities, when American troops were in combat. To me, that's a real indicator of a man who is motivated not by patriotism or support for the troops, but for partisan political purposes.

— Wesley Clark politics

People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be, until they have learned to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises.

— Vladimir Lenin politics

This is a really fascinating time because, again, we live in these two different realities. I don't think it's ever been like this. I know there's always been a — shall we say passionate — a passionate divide in American politics. But I don't think there's ever been a time when the two sides just have two different sets of reality. I mean, if more than half the Republicans think that Obama is trying to imposelaw on the United States of America, that's not something that you can argue about. That's just something in their view that has to be extirpated.

— Bill Maher politics

You know it's true that politics does make for strange bedfellows. I read a quote fromtwo days after the [Clinton] election, we had to wait two days for him to quit gut laughing. "Aaaahahahahaha, the elephant is dead," Saddam Hussein says in his quote, "we have nothing against America, we just want to see George Bush beheaded and his head kicked down the road like a soccerball." And I thought: that's so weird, 'cause … that's what I wanted to see! Wow, me and Hussein, we're like this! Who would'a thunk it?!

— Bill Hicks politics

It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous.

— Aldous Huxley politics

In the United States, politics is a profession, whereas in Europe it is a right and a duty.

— Umberto Eco politics

Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone.

— Richard Stallman politics

bread and circuits - the electronic era tendency to view party politics as corny — no longer relevant or meaningful or useful to modern societal issues, and in many cases dangerous. (page 80)

— Generation X: Tales For An Accelerated Culture politics

The core mobilizing myth of fascism which conditions its ideology, propaganda, style of politics and actions is the vision of the nation's imminent rebirth from decadence. ~

— Fascism politics

The war against war is going to be no holiday excursion or camping party. The military feelings are too deeply grounded to abdicate their place among our ideals until better substitutes are offered than the glory and shame that come to nations as well as to individuals from the ups and downs of politics and the vicissitudes of trade.

— William James politics

Fanaticism turns into a means of salvation, enthusiasm into epileptic ecstasy, politics becomes an opiate for the masses, a proletarian eschatology; and reason veils her face.

— Thomas Mann politics

One has no notion of him as making use of a fine pen, but a great mutton-fist; his style stuns readers...He is too much for any single newspaper antagonist; "lays waste" a city orator or Member of Parliament, and bears hard upon the government itself. He is kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country.

— William Hazlitt politics

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

— Diane Abbott politics

I hate politics and what are considered their appropriate measures. I hate notoriety, public meetings, public speeches, caucuses and everything that I know of which is apparently the necessary incident of politics - except doing public work to the best of my ability.

— John Abbott politics

Faith is important to me. It's important to millions of Australians. It helps to shape who I am. It helps to shape my values. But it must never, never dictate my politics.

— Tony Abbott politics

I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.

— Shinzo Abe politics

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

— Bella Abzug politics

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

— Marcel Achard politics

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

— Henry Adams politics

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

— Gautam Adani politics

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

— Konrad Adenauer politics

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.

— Alfred Adler politics

I quit politics because I hated it.

— Roger Ailes politics

I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.

— Damon Albarn politics

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

— Vagit Alekperov politics

People don't get involved with local charities or politics because they think it's hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I've time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it's still worth doing.

— Monica Ali politics

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.

— Florence Ellinwood Allen politics

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems.

— Eric Alterman politics

I haven't been in politics too long so that's a good thing.

— Justin Amash politics

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

— Corazon Aquino politics

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

— Tom Araya politics

When I was young, I flirted with the idea of a career in journalism on one hand and politics on the other.

— Sebastian Arcelus politics

In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself.

— Simon Armitage politics

I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women.

— Eve Arnold politics

Success in Silicon Valley, most would agree, is more merit-driven than almost any other place in the world. It doesn't matter how old you are, what sex you are, what politics you support or what color you are. If your idea rocks and you can execute, you can change the world and/or get really, stinking rich.

— Michael Arrington politics

I feel that if I am freed of the burden of politics, then I can do more and I can take more unpopular decisions. I can have as my guidance for decision whatever is right, not whatever is popular.

— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo politics

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

— Timothy Garton Ash politics

Politics is compromise.

— Paddy Ashdown politics

I remember my dad supporting everyone on the local and national level. I was pretty much born into it. I saw the importance of politics firsthand. It gave you a chance to be at the table.

— Nicole Avant politics

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

— John Avlon politics

I am not entering politics to be another Knesset member. If I enter the political arena I want to be prime minister. Period.

— Ami Ayalon politics

The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every 'educated' African who wants to be rich - and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich - heads straight into government or politics.

— George Ayittey politics

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

— Napoleon Bonaparte politics

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.

— Ray Bradbury politics

When I was 17, I came to the U.S. to study Middle Eastern history and politics at Columbia University.

— Julia Bacha politics

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.

— Amitabh Bachchan politics

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

— Abdullah Ahmad Badawi politics

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

— Joan Baez politics

A week is a long time in politics.

— Ted Baillieu politics

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

— Mikhail Bakunin politics

I think I do want to go into politics. I really, really do. And I don't know if I will.

— Alec Baldwin politics

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

— Stanley Baldwin politics

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