Top 457 Politics Quotes

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

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

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.

Honestly, acting is the most work when you're unemployed. For me, the actual acting part is never hard. It's the politics and basically everything around the acting that is difficult.

It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.