All Quotes

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
‐‐ Jean-Paul Sartre

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
‐‐ Max Weber

Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

Politics is a very male-dominated, male-driven profession. I was not just a woman but a young woman, and I suppose you end up trying to behave in a way that you think is expected of you.
‐‐ Nicola Sturgeon

Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.
‐‐ Matt Taibbi

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
‐‐ David Blunkett

Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.
‐‐ David Horowitz

Politics is activity in relation to power.
‐‐ Francis Parker Yockey

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 an instrument that can transform society.
‐‐ Enrique Pena Nieto

Politics is applied biology.
‐‐ Ernst Haeckel

Politics is compromise.
‐‐ Paddy Ashdown

Politics is cyclical.
‐‐ Darrell Issa

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
‐‐ Jimmy Durante

Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.
‐‐ Johannes Heesters

Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.
‐‐ James Dobson

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
‐‐ Albert Einstein

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.
‐‐ Frank Luntz

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
‐‐ Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is in a crisis because it's separated from our deep humanity.
‐‐ Marianne Williamson

Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.
‐‐ Judy Woodruff

Politics is intensely physical: your hands touch, clasp and hold, and your eyes are always reaching for contact. None of this came naturally to me. I'd always put my trust in words and let the words do the work, but in politics, the real message is physical.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.
‐‐ David Hare

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

Politics is just show business for ugly people.
‐‐ Jay Leno

Politics is largely a matter of heart.
‐‐ R. A. Butler

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
‐‐ John F. Kennedy

Politics is like getting a really bad review: a stinker that you know all your friends are reading.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff

Politics is marginal, but literature moves along by indirection.
‐‐ Italo Calvino

Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
‐‐ Charles Kennedy

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
‐‐ Larry Flynt

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
‐‐ Robert Harris

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.
‐‐ Gary Coleman

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
‐‐ Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.
‐‐ Honeysuckle Weeks

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.
‐‐ Ken Livingstone

Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.
‐‐ Edward Brooke

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.
‐‐ Maurice Saatchi

Politics is not about money.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
‐‐ Paul Wellstone

Politics is not an exact science.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else.
‐‐ Juan Vargas

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.
‐‐ Colin Powell

Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem.
‐‐ Kris Gopalakrishnan

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
‐‐ Jesse Ventura