Politics Quotes

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

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.

[My father] was interested. He read the newspapers and read Time and U.S. News and World Report and people in stores would come along, you know, and they would talk politics.

In my family, we were not involved in politics at all.

Walt Kelly was much more interested in allegory and politics, and I'm much more interested in metaphors and myth.

My views tend to be centrist. I'm not a big fan of George W., but my politics tend to be more Republican than not.

Having been born and raised in Washington, D.C., you kind of absorb politics when you grow up. And it continues to be a focus of mine, probably more than what is healthy for me.

Politics, in my judgment, has become not just the means to a policy ends, but it's become the end itself. Politics has become the sport that we all watch, and we all pay attention to.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Do I think reality TV is going to be a path to politics in a significant way? Eh, I don't know. Trump is a very specific case. It's really gonna be hard to replicate that.

Grinding the faces of the poor seems to be the policy of the Greens.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else.

I treat politics kind of like my religion. It’s something I believe in, but I don’t want to have to make a living at it, because if you make a living at it, you somehow become dishonest.

The bilateral relationship is unshakable, but playing politics with that relationship could blunt Secretary Kerry's enthusiasm for being Israel's primary defender.

I leave the politics at the office when I go out.

Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.

I was not wrong. I was just misinformed.

In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore.

Every citizen, scientists included, has some obligation to be involved in public affairs and politics.

I haven't seen it. I don't really need Michael Moore to tell me about September 11th.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

A week is a long time in politics, and three weeks is twice as long.

The basic thing is, people want to get paid, so they'll say the things that get them paid, in entertainment or politics.

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

What does an actor know about politics?

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

You can achieve anything in politics provided that you let someone else take the credit.

... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts.

Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border.

... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers.

Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act.

I oppose registration for the draft... because I believe the security of freedom can best be achieved by security through freedom.

There is a limit to what you can do in politics.

I don't have too much time for fiction.

Someone told me it was a round thing that gobbles up money. I thought that was Tip O'Neill.

Could there be anything but widespread misery, where a privileged few controlled a nation's wealth, while millions labored for a pittance, and millions more were desperate for want of employment?

The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it.

By nominating Chuck Hagel to be his Defense secretary, President Obama is putting forward an aloof contrarian who doesn't suffer fools - a striving politician who considers himself above politics.

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

In politics, there's a fine line between too much conviction and too little.

I didn't think about politics until I came to Europe.

Someone's looking for a lead, in his duty to a king or creed. Protecting what he feels is right, fights against wrong with his life.

Trying to double talk, get myself in trouble talk.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.

The problem of media/politics is multifold. Many things are out of whack.

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

The problem with describing poets as legislators is that at that level of politics - politics as political invention - poets have no special skills and are not apt to.