Top 635 Politics Quotes

Much of India’s Hindu-Muslim divisions can also be located in the context of history, fomented further by the politics of divide and rule.
Barkha Dutt
Do you think it’s possible to discuss politics without preaching?
Steven Brust
Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.
Jim Hightower
Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity – whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth – to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller
Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.
James MacGregor Burns
When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn – or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.
Sergey Galitsky
Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
A. J. Liebling
I don’t know about politics so much. I’m a professional athlete.
Khabib Nurmagomedov
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman
I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Sydney Pollack
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.
Lily Tomlin
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
Arnold H. Glasow
I was a Senate spouse for many, many years. I kept my own career. I was teaching and Joe was doing politics. I realized when we were elected vice president that I had a platform and I knew I was not going to waste my platform. It was going to focus women and girls’ education.
Jill Biden
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it’s the only place where we can keep track of ideas.
Reza Aslan
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
Jonathan Swift
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
P. J. O’Rourke
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Christopher Lasch
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
To protect America's security, we are going to have to

To protect America’s security, we are going to have to pull America’s military out of the swamp of Washington politics.
Mac Thornberry
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
Kevin Costner
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
Noam Chomsky
I will do what the Prime Minister asks me to do; that is my consistent approach to politics and to service.
Des Browne
Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.
Thurgood Marshall
Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families.
Mitt Romney
Beethoven was a deeply political man in the broadest sense of the word. He was not interested in daily politics, but concerned with questions of moral behaviour and the larger questions of right and wrong affecting the entire society.
Daniel Barenboim
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
Arundhati Roy
Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan
I think, under President Obama, who was a really bright guy – I didn’t agree with a lot of his politics – but we got to the point internationally where our friends didn’t trust us. They were confused. And our enemies didn’t quite respect us.
John Kennedy
I’m obsessed with politics, and I talk about it any chance I can get. I have strong opinions about how the world should be run.
Moby
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Benjamin Disraeli
We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.
Barack Obama
We need leadership. We don’t need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Paul Ryan
I’m not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
Aaron Sorkin
Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy
This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.
Richard Powers
In 1989, with the end of the Cold War and the collapse of communism, it seemed that the liberal story had won. The liberal story says that humankind is inevitably marching towards a global society of free markets and democratic politics.
Yuval Noah Harari
People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life… Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
Eddie Vedder
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Carl von Clausewitz
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II
A fool and his money are soon elected.
Will Rogers
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
Deng Xiaoping
For ‘The Grace of Kings,’ I read Han Dynasty historical records in Classical Chinese, which allowed me to get a sense of the complexity of the politics and the ‘surprisingly modern’ reactions of the historical figures to recurrent problems of state administration.
Ken Liu
In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.
Jesse Jackson
I am not at all a politician. I don’t think I’m cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
Pervez Musharraf
Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.
Winnie Byanyima
I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.
Zell Miller
A free America... means just this: individual freedom f

A free America… means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
Frank Lloyd Wright
I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
A. N. Wilson
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.
Ross Perot
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
Liev Schreiber
In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.
Joseph Chamberlain
Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.
Charles Kennedy
The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.
Alexander Lukashenko
We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.
Kin Hubbard
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Charles Dudley Warner
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
Erich Fromm
In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Lawrence Summers
I love my homeland, but it’s an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports!
Miguel Syjuco
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
Robert Byrd
Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work.
Suresh Gopi
My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.
Pierre Poilievre
‘Coriolanus’ deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I’ve been talking about politics so much because of ‘Borgen.’ It’s a nice bridge.
Birgitte Hjort Sorensen