Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman’s dance.
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
The ‘democracy gap’ in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the ‘least worst’ every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the ‘least worst’ gets worse.
At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.
To make films, you have to have something to say. To have something to say, you have to be a student of life. And to be a student of life, you have to be feeding yourself with what life, politics, society, and your family fuels you with.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
I’ll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
I knew quite a lot about politics before I went to Parliament.
I’ve accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.
We have been educated into believing someone else’s concept of the deity, and someone else’s standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don’t apologize.
Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics.
The most important virtue in politics was once thought to be likeability. But in Corbyn, dislikeable was king. Actually, dislikeability reached its apotheosis in Donald Trump, who exhibited sourness, truculence and negativity in every step and tweet.
The trouble with Nixon is that he’s a serious politics junkie. He’s totally hooked and like any other junkie, he’s a bummer to have around, especially as President.
My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
It is divisive politics to infringe upon the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens after a national tragedy.
Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.
Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.
To me, politics is a pile of tricks.
Any new technology, if it’s used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that’s more a question of the politics of the technology.
I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.
Attack politics costs us dearly in terms of insight into the candidates. In a presidential campaign, the focus is so tight that the politicians are afraid to say anything that hasn’t been scripted.
Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.
I can’t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.
The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
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.
I wasn’t interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can’t make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don’t even care enough to try.
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn’t leave the Republican Party; it left me.
In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.
Politics is a lot of serendipity. You’re in the right place and the right time and you’ve got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn’t.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
‘The Museum of Innocence’ is not about politics; it’s a love story, but I think it’s political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
I don’t do politics, I don’t do religion, I don’t do ethnic jokes.
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won’t come out as one.
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
I’m a Republican. I may go into politics myself.
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.
There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Any time scientists disagree, it’s because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I’m right, or you’re right, or we’re both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion.
Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.
We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it’s important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It’s best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job.
Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.
It’s interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics – how, if you’re an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.
Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.
I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.
