Quotes on Politics

Politics makes estranged bedfellows.

Author: Goodman Ace

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

Author: Marcel Achard

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Author: Lord Acton

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Author: Henry Adams

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Author: Henry Adams

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Author: Henry Adams

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Author: John Adams

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Author: John Adams

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

Author: Alfred Adler

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.

Author: Damon Albarn

You can hardly judge women's effect on politics merely from the action of individual women officeholders.

Author: Florence Allen

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

Author: Florence Allen

It was hard to figure out what were the good causes, the bad causes, even the good politics and the bad politics. So we started taking requests and figuring it out.

Author: Jeff Ament

Allen Ginsberg was a world authority on the writing of William Blake, and had an incredible knowledge of classic literature and world politics.

Author: David Amram

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.

Author: Kevin Anderson

Nothing is irreparable in politics.

Author: Jean Anouilh

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.

Author: Fiona Apple

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

Author: Corazon Aquino

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

Author: Tom Araya

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

Author: Aristotle

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Author: Dick Armey

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Author: Richard Armour

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

Author: Timothy Ash

What my future will not be is active politics in the Liberal Democrat party.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

Politics is compromise.

Author: Paddy Ashdown

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Author: Paddy Ashdown

I'm not in politics.

Author: David Attenborough

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Author: Jane Austen

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

Author: Abdullah Badawi

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

Author: Mikhail Bakunin

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

Author: Stanley Baldwin

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.

Author: Tammy Baldwin

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

Author: Honore Balzac

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.

Author: Afrika Bambaataa

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.

Author: Lester Bangs

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

Author: Warren Beatty

Politics calls for robust debate and criticism, but this should never descend to personal and demeaning slurs.

Author: Kim Beazley

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

Author: August Bebel

The message that I gave on the - on the steps today was that you need to stand for those things that are right and empower the individual. Believe in the power of one person. Don't believe that you can't do it. Everybody wants - everybody wants a shot. That we can all agree on. Beyond that, it becomes politics. I'm not talking politics.

Author: Glenn Beck

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.

Author: Ulrich Beck

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

Author: Samantha Bee

So that's my main role right now and really the politics also includes going out and communicating to the world why Apache is a good thing, why companies should be involved in it, and why individuals should be involved in it too.

Author: Brian Behlendorf

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Author: Michael Bennett

Politics is a blood sport.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Author: Aneurin Bevan

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.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

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.

Author: Ambrose Bierce

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Author: Otto Bismarck

Politics is not an exact science.

Author: Otto Bismarck

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Author: Otto Bismarck

Politics ruins the character.

Author: Otto Bismarck

I'm not going to talk like I know about politics, because I'm a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren't normally interested in politics.

Author: Bjork

I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

Author: Otis Blackwell

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

Author: Joan Blades

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.

Author: Rod Blagojevich

We have a set of sensible policies that are appropriate for the 21st century and which strike a chord of appeal with the silent majority. Perhaps that is why we are welcoming new members every week who have never before been involved in politics.

Author: Steve Blake

We have views on social issues that may seem to some that we are hard-line Tories. However our economics policies and our opposition to the process called globalisation could be considered by some to place us on the far-left of conventional politics.

Author: Steve Blake

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!

Author: William Blake

I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From time to time, people articulate a view that we should ban opinion polls, but that's nonsense.

Author: Jim Bolger

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take close interest in.

Author: Jim Bolger

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

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Author: Napoleon Bonaparte

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

Author: Julian Bond

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Author: Kjell Bondevik

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

Author: Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I was on leave from local and regional politics, as long as I was a Minister.

Author: Emma Bonino

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

Author: George Borrow

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Author: Christian Bovee

I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me.

Author: Billy Bragg

Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.

Author: Billy Bragg

Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser.

Author: John Breaux

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

Author: Rory Bremner

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

Author: Rory Bremner

At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over.

Author: Stephen Breyer

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Author: Vera Brittain

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Author: Jacob Bronowski

When you cover politics, you realize that knowing how to talk about character matters more and more. The way we hold ideas is more important than the ideas.

Author: David Brooks

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Author: Chester Brown

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

Author: H. Brown

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

Author: H. Brown

I just simply write as it moves me. I may be writing about a book or a movie or a person, places where I've been or something I've done. Or politics. It's going to what's on my mind at the moment.

Author: Tina Brown

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

Author: Willie Brown

Do you think it's possible to discuss politics without preaching?

Author: Steven Brust

I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.

Author: Art Buchwald

It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.

Author: Jack Buck

The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing.

Author: Lindsey Buckingham

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Author: Zola Budd

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Author: Charles Bukowski

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

Author: Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Author: Edmund Burke

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

Author: George Bush

I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.

Author: Laura Bush

Politics is a people business. I like people.

Author: Laura Bush

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

Author: Mangosuthu Buthelezi

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

Author: R. Butler

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Author: R. Butler

That's possible, and in fact the legislation, the politics should graduate the advantages towards those who have children and give less to those who don't have children.

Author: Rocco Buttiglione

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

Author: Lord Byron

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

Author: Joseph Cannon

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

Author: Max Cannon

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

Author: Max Cannon

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

Author: Tucker Carlson

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

Author: Thomas Carlyle

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Author: Howie Carr

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

Author: John Carre

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.

Author: James Carville

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Author: Joyce Cary

So my degree was in political science, which I think was - the closest I could come to marketing is politics.

Author: Steve Case

In politics, guts is all.

Author: Barbara Castle

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

Author: Catherine Catherine II

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Author: Michel Certeau

Politics is a contact sport.

Author: Steve Chabot

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Author: Joseph Chamberlain

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

Author: John Chapman

Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.

Author: John Chapman

Campaigning in Wyoming is politics at its most retail level. It's done one voter at a time.

Author: Mary Cheney

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Author: Gilbert Chesterton

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Author: Shirley Chisholm

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Author: Margaret Cho

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

Author: Julie Christie

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

Author: Winston Churchill

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.

Author: Winston Churchill

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.

Author: Winston Churchill

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

Author: Winston Churchill

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

Author: Alan Clark

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.

Author: Kenneth Clarke

War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

Author: Karl Clausewitz

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

Author: Karl Clausewitz

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Author: Karl Clausewitz

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.

Author: Eleanor Clift

If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.

Author: Eleanor Clift

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

Author: Kate Clinton

But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.

Author: Jonathan Coe

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Author: Jonathan Coe

Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.

Author: Frank Colby

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

Author: Juan Cole

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Author: Samuel Coleridge

I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.

Author: Judy Collins

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Author: Charles Colton

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Author: Roscoe Conkling

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Author: Mason Cooley

Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.

Author: Gerry Cooney

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

Author: Chris Cooper

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Author: Doug Coupland

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

Author: Alex Cox

Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He's the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.

Author: Alex Cox

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

Author: Phil Crane

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Author: Howard Crosby