Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
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.
Family politics are worse than world politics. That’s all I can say. You don’t get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.
I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
To be fair, money and politics never work in a directly straight line.
I never let my politics supersede my manners.
When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.
It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
That’s politics. After six o’clock, we can be friends, but before six, it’s politics.
In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.
If you are a writer from Turkey, Pakistan, Nigeria, Egypt, you don’t have the luxury of being apolitical. You can’t say, ‘That’s politics. I’m just doing my work.’
When we started making ‘Borgen,’ no one had any idea it would have any appeal outside Denmark. No one expected it to follow the success of ‘The Killing’ because it’s basically all about Danish politics.
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.
Under every stone lurks a politician.
I’m not giving up politics entirely – I’m just giving up leadership of a political party.
Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics.
Members of the Supreme Court have lifetime tenures because they’re not supposed to do politics.
Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.
I would have a poet able bodied, fond of talking, a reader of the newspapers, capable of pity and laughter, informed in economics, appreciative of women, involved in personal relationships, actively interested in politics, susceptible to physical impressions.
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
I discourage a cult of personality.
I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.
People say, ‘Oh, politics is so polarized today,’ and I’m thinking… ‘1861, that was polarized.’
Politics is just show business for ugly people.
In conclusion, politics plays a vital role in shaping our societies, and our engagement in the political process is essential for creating positive change. Let these quotes serve as a reminder of the importance of informed citizenship, ethical leadership, and the pursuit of justice. May they inspire you to take an active role in the political discourse, challenge the existing norms, and work towards a more inclusive and equitable world. Embrace the power of politics and strive to make a difference in your community and beyond.
