All Quotes

In Poland, my audience is all women between 18 and 30. At U.S. conventions, you have the fantasy and science fiction crowd. At Harvard you have an entirely different audience. It's so schizophrenic.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

In Poland we still believe - and this certainly applies to my government - that greater competitiveness, and greater growth and savings are possible in an economy which is as sparely regulated as possible, where freedom, competition and private ownership are key values.
‐‐ Donald Tusk

In polite society one laughs at all the jokes, including the ones one has heard before.
‐‐ Frank Dane

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
‐‐ Catherine the Great

In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
‐‐ Kathleen Troia McFarland

In politics, all candidates and volunteers are ambassadors to voters who expect better than parroting the politics of personal destruction. Being able to find common ground at the higher ground is what separates the stateswoman from the stuntwoman.
‐‐ Christine Pelosi

In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
‐‐ Jonathan Krohn

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.
‐‐ Paul Bloom

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
‐‐ Lawrence Summers

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
‐‐ Alexander Hamilton

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
‐‐ Roy Hattersley

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.
‐‐ Lalu Prasad Yadav

In politics, guts is all.
‐‐ Barbara Castle

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

In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously.
‐‐ Louis Adolphe Thiers

In politics, it's very theatrical. There's a lot of stage craft. The campaign is trying to tell a story that they want people to believe in, and candidates are playing the role, like actors, by a creative personae that people will be attracted to.
‐‐ Beau Willimon

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
‐‐ Mary McCarthy

In politics, Joseph Smith was something of a radical. He preached, instead of democracy, a version of theocratic rule within a framework given by his own prophetic leadership. At Nauvoo, Smith affected a Napoleonic uniform and made himself into a general and quasi king of the polity he had constituted.
‐‐ Noah Feldman

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
‐‐ Brian Mulroney

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

In politics, my role model would be a very weird one - our second emperor, Pedro the Second. He was a person with no vanity. He cared a lot about the public interest. He cared a lot about Brazil evolving as an important country. And he didn't ask much for himself. He was ousted from power, and he lived with the help of friends in Paris.
‐‐ Joaquim Barbosa

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
‐‐ Franklin D. Roosevelt

In politics nothing is contemptible.
‐‐ Benjamin Disraeli

In politics, one is never finished. Look at me!
‐‐ Alain Juppe

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.
‐‐ Sharad Pawar

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
‐‐ Nate Silver

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
‐‐ C. Northcote Parkinson

In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
‐‐ Daniel Goleman

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
‐‐ Nathan Myhrvold

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
‐‐ Alexis de Tocqueville

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
‐‐ H. G. Wells

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
‐‐ Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
‐‐ John Morley

In politics the middle way is none at all.
‐‐ John Adams

In politics, the number of women in the cabinet has fallen and, if current poll trends continue and Labour loses a number of marginal seats, the number of female MPs is likely to drop significantly.
‐‐ Lucy Powell

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

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.
‐‐ Tammy Bruce

In politics, there are no friends.
‐‐ Marian Wright Edelman

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.
‐‐ Matt Dillon

In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change.
‐‐ Sarah Palin

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

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.
‐‐ Gordon Taylor

In politics, they play games. In Hollywood, they play games. I think that, overall, everybody is trying to do whatever it takes to get ahead.
‐‐ Constance Zimmer

In politics, victory is never total.
‐‐ Donald Freed

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge