All Quotes

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
‐‐ Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians shouldn't spend most of their time in office trying to get reelected.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Politicians take something out of context to create problems.
‐‐ Anurag Kashyap

Politicians talk about wage equality, but my father has made it a practice at his company throughout his entire career. He will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this, too, right along side of him.
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
‐‐ Paul Lynde

Politicians talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face.
‐‐ Clare Boothe Luce

Politicians use religion, and they get their troops riled up with religion.
‐‐ Daron Malakian

Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

Politicians wanted to mine the Grand Canyon for zinc and copper, and Theodore Roosevelt said, 'No.'
‐‐ Douglas Brinkley

Politicians who lack the vision to lead the community on big issues like public transport often hide their inaction by blaming other levels of government when anyone complains.
‐‐ Anthony Albanese

Politicians who wear little tennis socks with the balls at the back should not be taken seriously.
‐‐ Mo Rocca

Politicians will not put forth programs aimed at the problems of poor blacks while their turnout remains so low.
‐‐ Henry Louis Gates

Politicians will talk strategy and tactics and policies and programs until they're blue in the face, or you strangle them and they turn blue.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Politicians wishing to set a better tone should have the discipline to avoid televised cage matches.
‐‐ John Sununu

Politicisation of terrorism for narrow gains is not good for society in general and the country in particular.
‐‐ Oscar Fernandes

'Politico Magazine' listed me among the top 50 'thinkers, doers and visionaries transforming American politics' for my work in coalitions advancing net neutrality.
‐‐ Marvin Ammori

Politicon should be applauded for recognizing the increasing impact of technology, not only on American social and economic systems but on the very structure of our system of politics.
‐‐ John McAfee

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
‐‐ Ambrose Bierce

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!
‐‐ Pope Francis

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
‐‐ John Ortberg

Politics also means educating people. It's important to speak openly with our fellow Greeks, to tell them what our problems are and that we have to change something.
‐‐ George Papandreou

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
‐‐ Adam Michnik

Politics and football don't mix.
‐‐ Ruud Gullit

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
‐‐ P. T. Barnum

Politics and government have been a terrible place to invest; education has been a terrible place to invest, but that is because the entrenched interests make it a terrible place to invest. The way you invest in those sectors is you go against the entrenched interests; you try and disrupt the entrenched interests, not to service them.
‐‐ Fred Wilson

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.
‐‐ Enrique Pena Nieto

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
‐‐ Fareed Zakaria

Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important.
‐‐ Hari Kondabolu

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
‐‐ Edmund Burke

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
‐‐ Newt Gingrich

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Politics are always involved, even in my love songs.
‐‐ Lydia Lunch

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
‐‐ Ben Nicholson

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.
‐‐ Vagit Alekperov

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Politics are not my arena. Music is.
‐‐ Aretha Franklin

Politics are not the task of a Christian.
‐‐ Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Politics are private. I don't understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.
‐‐ Carolina Herrera

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
‐‐ Vera Brittain

Politics as a parent is fairly demanding; if your parent is in politics, it's fairly demanding, so I make no excuses about taking two weeks off.
‐‐ George Osborne

Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
‐‐ Brooks Adams

Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.
‐‐ Ronald Steel

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
‐‐ Jonathan Swift

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

Politics aside, you look at Barack Obama, he is ripped.
‐‐ Jillian Michaels

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.
‐‐ Mark McKinnon

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
‐‐ Vladimir Lenin

Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
‐‐ David Trimble