At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there’s so many stories out there waiting to be told. It’s just a matter of who’s out there listening.
India has never played politics with national security.
Great leaders find a way to rise above politics while at the same time keeping their party’s loyalists in the fold.
People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don’t come from that school.
No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, ‘Dad we need a third political party.’ He said to me, ‘I’ll settle for a second.’
Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
Our form of government can no longer be considered an experiment in politics. Crowned with success, it stands forth an example to the world and exhibits the proudest triumph of reason and philosophy.
No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.
I’m not into politics.
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.
I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure.
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I’ve been across the street at work for a while, they’ll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn’t. I started getting really excited about politics.
When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world’s premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.
The secret of getting things done is to act!
My family is just like most other families – we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Let me say at the outset, there would be no space for vendetta politics in Punjab.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
Politics is a contact sport.
You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.
I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade – or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.
There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.
The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, ‘Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.’ I’m a finance major and always intended to go into business.
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.
I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I’m here.
The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.
I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.
Of course you can’t ‘trust’ what people tell you on the web anymore than you can ‘trust’ what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do.
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I’ve no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Politics is not an exact science.
I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.
Broadway is such a diverse community. Everybody knows how I believe, and everyone believes, and it’s not a big deal. But in Hollywood, if you talk about politics – especially if you’re a Republican – or spirituality, it’s just not something people want to hear about.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Politics is a conversation between the contestant and the voter.
I’ve been offered political shows before, and I don’t know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions – there’s consequences to them. I often think I’m wrong, so I really don’t like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.
I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy… fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
