Man is by nature a political animal.
Aristotle
Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.
Meg Greenfield
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne
When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.
Franklin P. Adams
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
There is no maxim, in my opinion, which is more liable to be misapplied, and which, therefore, more needs elucidation, than the current one, that the interest of the majority is the political standard of right and wrong.
James Madison
The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people.
Richard J. Daley
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho
It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.
Alfred Korzybski
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
Albert Einstein
When the US sneezes, Canada says, 'gesundheit.'
Jules Carlysle
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein
In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace.
Henry Thomas Buckle
Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me.
Walter F. Mondale
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton
Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it.
Allan Bloom
Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed.
Ben Manski
Earl of Sandwhich . . .You shall either die of the pox or on the gallowsJohn Wilkes . . . That sir depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
John Wilkes
The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth.
George MacDonald
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George Mcgovern
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery
She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply.
Bella Abzug
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
Newt Gingrich
In the meantime, we should demand that no B.C. elections take place for the Senate until we are properly recognized as a full-fledged region of this country.
Mark Marissen
Citizens want not just input but influence.
Deborah Reyher
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Larry Hardiman
He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match.
Aneurin Bevan
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa
Republicans are against abortion until their daughters need one, Democrats are for abortion until their daughter wants one.
Grace Mcgarvie
Conservatives divide the world in terms of good and evil while liberals do it in terms of the rich and poor.
Dennis Prager
Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do neither what you said nor what you intended.
Saddam Hussein
Foreign rightwing fundamentalists attacked the United States. Domestic rightwing fundamentalists took the spotlight. And everywhere, progressives, liberals, and moderates either fell in behind them, or retreated into the shadows . . . We have seen the consequences.
Ben Manski
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted Koppel
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells
Political campaigns are designedly made into emotional orgies which endeavor to distract attention from the real issues involved, and they actually paralyze what slight powers of cerebration man can normally muster.
James Harvey Robinson
The silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.
Gerhard Kocher
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George
We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the right and left, that the truth has become hopelessly lost in semantics.
Jules Carlysle
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
The only thing we learn from a new election is we learned nothing from the old.
Gerald Barzan
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt
Politics: 'Poli' a Latin word meaning 'many'; and "tics" meaning 'bloodsucking creatures'.
Robin Williams
The only legitimate right to govern is an express grant of power from the governed.
William Henry Harrison
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
Jim Hightower
The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy, that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.
Jimmy Breslin
Because of our Congressional committee system, our government is closer to a gerontocracy than a democracy.
Charles Frankel
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
If you're listening to a rock star in order to get your information on who to vote for, you're a bigger moron than they are.
Alice Cooper
Political commercials encourage the deceptive, the destructive and the degrading.
John O'toole
And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any of this crap. For God's sake, they were blowing peoples' heads off because they put a tax on their breakfast beverage. And it wasn't even coffee.
Dennis Miller
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Charles Dudley Warner
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario Cuomo
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Henry Cate VII
Politics is largely a matter of heart.
R. A. Butler
In my mind, the re-election of Richard Nixon, compared with what was available on the other side, was so much more important that I put it in just that context.
John N. Mitchell
The pejorative term 'political correctness' was adapted to express disapproval of the enlargement of etiquette to cover all people, in spite of this being a principle to which all Americans claim to subscribe.
Judith S. Marin
The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
John Jay Chapman
A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
Franklin Pierce
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
A republican stands up in congress and says 'I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!' and the democrat stands up after him and says 'AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!'
Lewis Black
Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all.
John W. Gardner
I don't doubt that Bush probably believes most of his own rhetoric (even he couldn't possibly believe it all) and somewhere in the dark recesses of the vacant space left behind after he sold his soul to the devil…he probably believes that ultimately, his intentions are good. He'd be wrong of course…but, he must be used to that by now .
Jules Carlysle
Those who insist on the dignity of their office show they have not deserved it.
Baltasar Gracian
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley Baldwin
The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.
Wilhelm Reich
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
Ronald Steel
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Will Rogers
Retreat usually leads to defeat.
Ben Manski
No man is fit to be a Senator... unless he is willing to surrender his political life for great principle.
Henry Fountain Ashurst
Anyone who still supports George Bush would still let Michael Jackson babysit their kids.
Hal Sparks
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Donald H. Rumsfeld
Depression is the inability to construct a future.
Dr. Rollo May
Politics: The highest calling to the lowest falling.
Gregory Nunn
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: "But what would you replace it with?" When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with.
Thomas Sowell
In politics, you must let the other person have your way.
Claiborne Pell
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Advertising men and politicians are dangerous if they are separated. Together they are diabolical.
Phillip Adams
Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.
Mark B. Cohen
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.
R. A. Butler
Democracy demands an opposition party.
Ben Manski
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel Achard
She is said to be inclined to cough noisily when he goes on too long at the rostrum; but this is a traditional prerogative of the political wife, and rather more necessary in this instance than in most.
George Hill
The principal purpose of the Democratic Party is to use the force of government to take property away from the people who earn it and give it to people who do not.
Neal Boortz
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them.
Lenny Bruce
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
Alfred E. Newman
I feel that 'man-hating' is an honorable and viable political act, that the oppressed have a right to class-hatred against the class that is oppressing them.
Robin Morgan
There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he's too busy wondering what he'll do if he isn't elected.
Senator Everett Dirksen
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
No wonder Americans hate politics when, year in and year out, they hear politicians make promises that won't come true because they don't even mean them - campaign fantasies that win elections but don't get nations moving again.
Bill Clinton
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.
Ronald Reagan
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
Good government is good politics.
Richard J. Daley
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt
I don't go with the flow. The average person in Jacksonville doesn't really care about politics until they hit you in the pocketbook or until they try to put something in your back yard.
George Cleveland
Florida is one example of how partisan politics interfere with having folks' votes being counted accurately. Americans have taken elections for granted for far too long.
Ion Sancho
Overall, Madison is pretty progressive and a lot of the people are very socially aware of the kinds of issues in food politics ? what organic is, what sustainable is. They are concerned about their environment.
Brendon Smith
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James Macgregor Burns
That is a matter for other people. I actually believe that there should be more truth perhaps told in terms of politics and what goes on but his position is not a matter for me.
Lord Stevens
We thought this was a winnable race but, as much as we love politics, there are more important things in life, especially concerns of family.
Jerry Lundergan
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Under any scenario, there is going to be a bucketful of cash being dumped into education this year. There's always something for every side. That's the way politics is played in Albany.
Brian Backstrom
He's respected on both sides of the aisle. Politics in Colorado have become polarized and partisan. Because he was a statewide politician, he's had to work across the aisle to get elected and get things done.
Travis Reindl
This whole thing is a house of cards. At some point, you're going to have to sit down and talk reality, instead of farce and politics.
Sander Levin
All the needs are different. That's crazy that one school has something that another one doesn't. That's just good ole boy politics that's been going on for years.
Mark Gregory
I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
Lech Walesa
The key variable is Chinese domestic politics. How do you demand anything in Chinese culture and not get it.
David Shambaugh
The challenge to the Internet pioneers that are out there is getting the swing voters looking at the Internet - the people who aren't engaged in politics through the traditional mediums.
Matt Smyth
There's no politics involved in this. It's just the guidelines and requirements for independent candidates.
Scott Haywood
He will not come back right away, he will probably try to put up a front man. I don't think his character is such that he will just retire, leave politics and fade away.
Marc Faber
It's a stall tactic coming out of hostile politics in Washington.
Daniel Patterson
The only thing worse than a silly politician analyzing art is a silly artist analyzing politics.
Jonathan Alter
This is about the children, not petty politics. That is exactly what is going to hurt our children.
Margaret Ponga
This is Janet-come-lately. I'm glad she's finally waking up to the crisis. I wish it was more than pure politics.
Russell Pearce
As a business man, I can only thank German politicians for helping to sell my movie. As a democrat, however, I am disgusted with this attempt to play politics with the basic rights of free speech and expression.
Anil Sahin
Politics has a number of definitions, and especially at the senior general and admiral level, there's a good deal of jockeying.
Joseph Dawson
It is unfortunate the Republicans are looking to play politics with the safety of the first lady.
Jim Kennedy
The reality is, when the incumbent has 60 percent job approval and the 'are-we-going-in-the-right-direction' numbers are in the 70's and he outspends his opponent more than 10-to-1, that person is likely to win. I don't know that we've moved beyond ethnic politics, but it's fair to say it's only piece of a larger picture.
Jef Pollock
You can't leave politics out of anything that emanates from Washington, D.C.,
Ralph Hall
It all adds to the general perception that politics are no good and politicians are a bunch of bums.
Louis Post
Say that cricket has nothing to do with politics and you say that cricket has nothing to do with life.
John Arlott
The fundraising advantage that Democrats hold over Republicans is a reflection of the superior advantage we maintain on politics and policies. There are no good reasons to invest in New Jersey Republicans.
Richard Mcgrath
I've never seen this city as divided as it is now. The racial politics are being played. This is serious business. There are people who feel that these people are being put through a lot and they haven't been charged with anything.
Joyce Foreman
I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Tom Hayden
The politics are going to get pretty hot once the new nominee comes in, because it's the O'Connor spot. Why mess with the Roberts' nomination?
Marci Hamilton
It's time consuming. The thing that concerns me is that the calendar moves. When all the egos have been gilded and all the politics have been done, we really still have children who need to be educated.
Betty Gray
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
Walt Whitman
I talk about dating. There's a lot of new stuff about my family, politics, the war.
Jason Stuart
I know the governor is conflicted. Arnold has some very close gay and lesbian friends. I know it's a difficult situation because of the politics.
Bill Rosendahl
The big problem is to find suitable hats. I don't care for them all that much, but you have to wear them in politics.
Maryon Pearson
Better understanding of finding the truth in politics.
Carl Bernstein
I really believe that Scott Garrett represents all that is wrong in American politics. This is a fight we can win.
Paul Aronsohn
They are the scourge of American politics. They are unaccountable and play by a different set of rules.
Warren Tompkins
Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
Goodman Ace
It's crystal-clear that the FDA has chosen politics over legitimate science, ... The FDA has failed its public health responsibilities and has failed women.
Karen Pearl
When people travel here from across the country, they shed jealousies and politics and prejudices.. The mighty climb down. The humble are elevated.
Hugh Sidey
My interests were also a little more honed than the other guys - black politics and all those groups that had a different view of politics than was in the newspapers.
Aaron Carter
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse tung
There was nothing that would lead me to believe he would burn down a church. Russ was always very respectful of my religion. We discussed it openly, the way many people discuss politics.
Jeremy Burgess
If you put a conservative in as insurance commissioner, I have no idea what he might do. You're having policy wonks, good-government types, meeting head on with movement conservatives. In politics, success breeds more interest.
Bob Beatty
I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson
Raising money is a reality of modern-day politics.
Barrett Kaiser
Confound their politics, / Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry Carey
I don't even worry about the politics of the game. It's how you think of yourself. I just keep working.
Clarence Curry
It really should be taken out of the realm of politics. It's a public health job. The head of the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) isn't a political appointment, and it's in the same realm.
Raymond Woosley
Politics has always interested me. Despite the bad fallout, the criticism that politicians face, I still think it's a good thing to get involved.
Alfonso Gagliano
To me, that smells of pure politics.
Dane Waters
My concern was not about politics.
Kemp J. Kemp
. . . people will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women is politics.
Grace Paley
We of course remember the days when the leader of the house was the bovver boy, stand over man of Australian politics, now he's just pathetic and this is just a pathetic resolution moved to try and guillotine this debate through this House from a minister who only yesterday ... was complaining about debate being guillotined.
Julia Gillard
Creating a winning coalition is the art of presidential politics and keeping everybody happy is hard and it's the core thing we do in coalitions.
Simon Rosenberg
Politics isn't a job. It's a lay mission.
Walter Veltroni
We have taken note that Joseph Zen was appointed as a cardinal by the Vatican. We advocate that religious figures should not interfere with politics.
Liu Jianchao
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Valery
It appears that as long as politics does not threaten steps towards fiscal consolidation or derail growth prospects, the market will be happy to buy Philippines assets on dips.
Shahab Jalinoos
CONSUL, n. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure and office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson
All of that for using foul language and clearing a crime scene. They showed no compassion. They were only interested in the politics.
Frank Desalvo
The good news is that China, India and Indonesia don't much like pollution either... but they've got to deal with the politics of energy development and pricing.
William Ramsay
The No. 1 instinct in politics is survival, ... going to have a much harder time than he's had so far in ... keeping people close to him.
Andrew Kohut
I've sat across from the Israelis and forces from 36 nations is Bosnia and Kosovo. People wanted to give as little as they could. In politics, you have to negotiation what everyone's contributions will need.
Keith Self
What drove him into politics was indignation, outrage.
William Johnson
There's a tradition in politics of asking young people for their votes and time without asking people for their opinions and ideas.
Josh Greenberg
Women in politics, academia and the business world (in Germany) are a decade behind women in America and some other European countries. The fact in itself that we have a woman candidate for chancellor is revolutionary.
Constanze Stelzenmueller
We keep getting further and further away from having a meaningful conversation about how to really address this issue, ... Distorting the Law: Politics, Media and the Litigation Crisis.
Michael Mccann
The party line is the cue for most rank-and-file voters at the local level. Let's face it: Most voters don't follow politics on a day-to-day basis so many are going to follow the party organization.
Peter Woolley
I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.
David Lange
When your ass is on the block, politics is a luxury.
Steven Bochco
INFLUENCE, n. In politics, a visionary _quo_ given in exchange for a substantial _quid_.
Ambrose Bierce
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
Corazon Aquino
The World Trade Center is not a place for domestic or international politics.
Patrick Lynch
This isn't about the city of Auburn. It's about a code enforcement officer out of control. In my view it's more important to protect this disabled veteran than to worry about politics.
Yvonne Ward
For all of us who observe B.C. politics, the Premier is off to a good start.
David Mitchell
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
My decision to do this has nothing to do with politics. It has nothing to do with my profession. It has everything to do with my family.
American Citizen
We all have to embrace in national unity ... avoid radicalism and learn politics.
Xanana Gusmao
Let me say that prior to 1947, when we got freedom, gradually things started degenerating and gradually it came to a point that politics did not remain what it is in other democracies.
Pratibha Advani
The tectonic plates of Israeli politics are moving to the center, ... Because Sharon could speak to both the right and the left, he could carry out this almost impossible mission of disengagement.
Raanan Gissin
If you're not turned on to politics, politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader
In politics, tone and modulation matter.
Jim Jordan
It's the politics of the Liberal party that they seem to get away with this kind of thing in Ontario and to some degree in Quebec. He'll likely form another government. Whether it's a minority or a majority, I don't know. But certainly he'll get votes out of Ontario.
Ralph Klein
I love politics -- it's in my blood. My dad was involved in politics with Joe Garrahy when he was lieutenant governor. I can remember going to the State House.
Kristen Connors
He's a hard-working guy with lots of integrity. I encouraged him. We need good people becoming involved in politics.
Cal Nichols
It's not about politics. I was against [the North American Free Trade Agreement, which many more liberal politicians were also against.] I'm just out there to help enforce the laws.
James Wade
Pennsylvania has a very long tradition of politics (like this).
Susan Hansen
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