Politics Quotes

We know the Chinese have revealed millions of background information on millions of people in the United States, and these, I suppose, ultimately are part of international big-power politics.

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

What is it we are hating? It goes beyond politics. I suppose that my fascination with [Margaret Thatcher] is not just with her political record but with her as a phenomenon.

Well, politics is war, and in war, truth is the first casualty.

We regret mistakes were made.

I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all.

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

When women participate in politics, the effects ripple out across society... Women are the world's most underused resource.

I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

We shouldn't leave the work of politics to people who run for public office.

When it comes to foreign policy, it is important to remember that politics stops at the water's edge.

It's so much more fun to watch FOX when it's someone else being blitzed & sacked!

I'm going to be pitching Andy Cohen on a new show for Bravo. We can call it 'Project Pantsuit.'

I'm sure I could fall in love with a Democrat as easily as a Republican. Some things transcend politics.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.

We must urgently begin to rebuild the bonds of trust and respect among Americans. Restoring trust in our politics, our press, our markets.

I wouldn't write about sh*t I don't know. You won't hear me write about politics in Africa and stuff, because I don't know enough about it. And I would never rap about something I can't back up.

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

The general will is always right.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

Cuttin' taxes for strippers and thugs.

I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

To be a statesman, you must first get elected.

I think politics and personal psychology and interrelationships - these things are interrelated to me and overlap.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

I don't like to dabble in anything I don't do well. I don't talk politics.

[It's] difficult to engage people in politics when they believe that what really matters is where they personally stand.

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

all the salt of Turkish life consists of politics and official intrigue.

I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.

It's important for me to fight for principles. But I am not willing to cope with the nastiness of politics anymore and the endless destructive confrontations that it leads to.

Politics...You see, it depends on what kind of politics. What we did during my father's generation was a duty. And it was beautiful because its goal was the conquest of freedom.

Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago.

I had realized in the meantime that action too has its difficulties, and that one can also be led to it by neurosis. We are not saved by politics any more than by literature.

American journalism's crazy old aunt in the attic.

A depraved culture supports a depraved politics and vice versa.

University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.

You must understand printing lies about Republican candidates is OK. It's called vetting. Printing the truth about liberals - that's called "swift-boating."

The manufacturing and packaging of homogeneous experience is what politics in America is about.

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans.

American politics are normally a result of pragmatic and not philosophical reasoning. No one in Washington has said we now prefer multilateralism.