All Quotes

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.
‐‐ Arthur Koestler

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.
‐‐ Zac Goldsmith

Politics demands certain skills honed by experience, just as journalism does, just as acting does.
‐‐ George Packer

Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal.
‐‐ Tatyana Tolstaya

Politics disgusts me.
‐‐ Brigitte Bardot

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.
‐‐ Brian J. White

Politics exist in the boardroom, as well.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.
‐‐ Rory Stewart

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
‐‐ John Avlon

Politics, for me, is not a competition to see who's got the bigger ego. It's working together for the good of the people.
‐‐ Mauricio Macri

Politics for me started in violence.
‐‐ Marine Le Pen

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor, but I also feel like I'm contributing, whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.
‐‐ Stephanie Cutter

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am.
‐‐ Brian Wilson

Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.
‐‐ Billy Graham

Politics has become entertainment.
‐‐ Joe Eszterhas

Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
‐‐ John Oliver

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.
‐‐ Mike Huckabee

Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.
‐‐ Edi Rama

Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
‐‐ Dan Aykroyd

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.
‐‐ Jim Leach

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

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
‐‐ Naomi Klein

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
‐‐ Henry Adams

Politics have been changed forever because of people. The Internet is one of the tools that has helped. And it isn't just politics. The new networked dynamics that are now possible with these new forms of communication are also changing the way people engage as consumers that demand more social value from corporations.
‐‐ Jeremy Heimans

Politics have no relation to morals.
‐‐ Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics I 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 in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
‐‐ Stendhal

Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
‐‐ Theodore White

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.
‐‐ Michael Nutter

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.
‐‐ Rory Bremner

Politics is a blood sport.
‐‐ Aneurin Bevan

Politics is a contact sport.
‐‐ Steve Chabot

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.
‐‐ Bob Ehrlich

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
‐‐ John Morley

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
‐‐ Kit Harington

Politics is a good thing!
‐‐ Larry J. Sabato

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
‐‐ Gary Johnson

Politics is a highly tribal business.
‐‐ Nick Clegg

Politics is a lot tougher than physics.
‐‐ Burton Richter

Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
‐‐ Richard Lamm

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.
‐‐ Deborah Eisenberg

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Politics is a people business. I like people.
‐‐ Laura Bush

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.
‐‐ Frank Moore Colby

Politics is a potent way to empower women.
‐‐ Preneet Kaur

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
‐‐ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.
‐‐ Donna Brazile