All Quotes

Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the case especially in many English-language newspapers. Instead, they contain a political message, and the artist takes full responsibility.
‐‐ Umberto Eco

Political scientists after World War II hypothesized that even though the voices of individual Americans counted for little, most people belonged to a variety of interest groups and membership organizations - clubs, associations, political parties, unions - to which politicians were responsive.
‐‐ Robert Reich

Political scientists have long argued that party identification is the best possible predictor of voting behavior and is remarkably sticky over time.
‐‐ Rick Perlstein

Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
‐‐ Callie Khouri

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Political tags - such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth - are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
‐‐ Robert A. Heinlein

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.
‐‐ B. R. Ambedkar

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe's fiscal, banking, and monetary union.
‐‐ Barry Eichengreen

Political vitriol is a familiar enough characteristic of American history.
‐‐ Robert Dallek

Political work is the life-blood of all economic work.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.
‐‐ Jeremy Corbyn

Politically correct speech will not defeat the enemy.
‐‐ Kevin McCarthy

Politically, foreign policy never matters until it matters, and then it matters a lot.
‐‐ Marco Rubio

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.
‐‐ Belle Boyd

Politically, Obama's amazing streak of self-destructing opponents who have lain beneath his feet during his unlikely political career appears to be holding.
‐‐ Eric Alterman

Politically, of course, the U.S., despite the flaws in its systems, is still a democracy - we like to associate with democracies. And strategically, the U.S. is a counter-balance to China, a rising China that is not yet a democracy.
‐‐ Tsai Ing-wen

Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.
‐‐ James Surowiecki

Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.
‐‐ Dwight Schultz

Politically, the ultraorthodox represent a small portion of the Israeli society.
‐‐ Tzipi Livni

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
‐‐ Alice Walker

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.
‐‐ Arnold Schwarzenegger

Politicians all too often think about the next election. Statesmen think about the next generation.
‐‐ Linda Lingle

Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.
‐‐ John Sununu

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
‐‐ Aristotle

Politicians always criticize each other in different ways.
‐‐ Thaksin Shinawatra

Politicians and bureaucrats must learn to stay away from the day-by-day functioning of business.
‐‐ Adi Godrej

Politicians and the government have become too interested in short-term gains. Of course, if you look at the direct financial returns in the short term, human space flight is expensive. But they need to look longer term.
‐‐ Helen Sharman

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.
‐‐ Shirley Temple

Politicians are addicted to spending and revenue extraction. As with an addict, there's little pause for moral or legal contemplation.
‐‐ David Malpass

Politicians are better liars than writers.
‐‐ Shan Sa

Politicians are easy to attack, but frankly, we are all guilty of not meeting the needs of Africa's young people properly.
‐‐ Ama Ata Aidoo

Politicians are fond of criticizing others.
‐‐ Martin Winterkorn

Politicians are good at saying how Government must do more, but we must also think carefully about where Government should do less.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Politicians are good listeners. Because if they're not, they aren't politicians for very long.
‐‐ Andrew Cuomo

Politicians are just Daily Mail journalists writ large, aren't they? They're always telling us what's going to happen, and we know they don't know!
‐‐ Tom Baker

Politicians are masters of the art of deception.
‐‐ Martin L. Gross

Politicians are nauseating by definition... They can produce nothing, neither a loaf of bread nor a table nor a picture; and this inability to create value, this total inferiority, makes them jealous, vengeful, insolent and a menace to life and limb.
‐‐ Gerhard Richter

Politicians are no different than the rest of the public.
‐‐ Scott McCallum

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
‐‐ Antony Beevor

Politicians are probably the most underrated people in our society.
‐‐ Jacob K. Javits

Politicians are so detested. And the main cause is not policy; it's the fact that there is no trust.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

Politicians are strong to the extent that they are ready to take serious decisions and fight for it.
‐‐ Ehud Olmert

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.
‐‐ Jim Cooper

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers.
‐‐ Nikita Khrushchev

Politicians are there to try to deal with stuff, but sometimes it's both fortunate and unfortunate that people like us have more... not involvement, but more power in the stuff that we say.
‐‐ Thierry Henry

Politicians are trying to attract people to issues.
‐‐ Nancy Pelosi

Politicians are usually the first to forget that if you assume someone else is acting in bad faith, they will do the same to you. Questioning motives poisons the well.
‐‐ John Sununu

Politicians are very experienced - maybe too experienced - at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.
‐‐ Amy Cuddy

Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke