You’ve got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.
If I’m sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn’t mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, ‘never say never.’ You never know, I might end up joining politics.
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
The real danger is a politics that buries its head in the sand.
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.
I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.
I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.
I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it’s not even a contact sport – it’s a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns.
There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There’s too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded.
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.
I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you’re good friends.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
There’s a lot of politics in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. There’s a lot us artists would change about the induction ceremony and who they pick.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
You have to believe that it’s through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn’t exactly win us any friends.
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it’s an important issue, but there’s a reason that I don’t talk about politics and why I’ll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.
I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.
The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region… are making by giving a chance to women.
The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
There’s a lot of politics in television and a lot of in-fighting and all that sort of stuff, but in the end, we are purveyors of entertainment. Viewers are not really bogged down in who’s doing what and who hates who and who’s doing best in the ratings. They watch television to be entertained.
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
The minute somebody joins a committee… they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee.
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth… today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.
We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.
I’d like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
You don’t enter politics when you come to parliament. I was getting politics for breakfast, dinner and tea when I was a little kid.
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.
Our obligation to the people we serve is too important to place politics and partisanship before progress and results.
I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
I mean that I think I find the psychology of people more interesting than politics. I think the psychology of politics is more interesting than straight politics.
The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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.
I don’t follow politics; it doesn’t interest me. So why should I vote?
My life is politics, reading books and exercise.
We all have our likes and our dislikes. But… when we’re doing news – when we’re doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we’re doing the daily news, covering politics – it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
For a lot of people, most of their exposure to politics and politicians involves events on the campaign trail, interviews on cable news, or seeing a viral tweet here or there. But day to day, there’s so much more than anyone sees.
If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.
In ‘Healing the Soul of America,’ I wrote about Gandhi’s notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
I’m always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.
Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it’s inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are… You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time.