Top 635 Politics Quotes

In Israel politics, four years is like 400 years in Europe.
Avigdor Lieberman
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel
The latter 1940s and early ’50s were a time of tense, explosive conflict, in the world at large and in the politics of our nation.
M. Stanton Evans
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It’s about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it’s about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
Tom Peters
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
Stone Gossard
Making promises and then saddling yourself with a political system and a political union that means that you cannot deliver those promises, I fear, doesn’t contribute to an atmosphere of trust and confidence in politics.
Michael Gove
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
Harry S Truman
I’m sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.
Gavin Newsom
The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that’s not equity, it’s just creating a society where you can’t ask anything of people.
Jacques Delors
No, I’m not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.
Jay-Z
The longer they talk about identity politics, I got ’em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats.
Steve Bannon
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
Albert Pike
If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
Thomas Sowell
Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
P. J. O’Rourke
Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
Carter Glass
Anybody who doesn’t know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.
James Ellroy
Well, politics is much more severe than entertainment. You have to hit those points, in politics, word for word. You have to remember the date. You have to remember the website. You have to rehearse stories that might be asked, have anecdotes ready for questions that might come up.
Matt Walsh
In politics, you never know who’s going to die, retire, or – in Illinois – get indicted.
Aaron Schock
Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.
Winston Churchill
One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
Ted Cruz
The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
Billy Hughes
We need elected officials who overcome partisan politics to really help people.
Ed O’Neill
Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other.
Gloria Steinem
Neither politics of chaos and anarchy has succeeded earlier and nor will succeed in future.
Shehbaz Sharif
I’m in politics. I’m in government, so nothing surprises me.
Andrew Cuomo
'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he who

‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
Thomas Paine
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
Brad Henry
Remember: real politics isn’t about figureheads and seats in parliament. Real politics is about ideas. And there can be no doubt regarding the extreme ideas that have been gaining ground in the Netherlands for decades.
Rutger Bregman
Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
Imran Khan
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
Pope Francis
The ’90s were extremely diverse, almost like a laboratory of the new century. There was much experimenting around, in politics, economics, gender and family structures, and also in fashion. There was a cloud of possibilities which kept us all dizzy.
Jil Sander
I’ve traveled around the world, and what’s so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.
Howard Schultz
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.
Robertson Davies
Religion and morality are critical to how students think about politics and form opinions on political issues.
Jeanne Shaheen
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don’t have to ask anyone or play politics. You don’t have to wait for the reviews.
Sandy Koufax
TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse – news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion.
Neil Postman
In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.
Sigmar Gabriel
I’m noticing a lot of the big bloggers who’ve posted about politics are experiencing an ugly backlash. Readers are angry because they went to the bloggers’ sites for a laugh, not a lecture. Again, it’s a question of being appropriate for the audience.
Jen Lancaster
I think I’m one of the most patriotic people that I’ve ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way – not by donations; I work at it.
Hunter S. Thompson
But the rising chorus urging ESPN to change its stripes is missing something: The intersection of sports and politics is natural. And the left-wing lean of ESPN is inevitable. Conservatives bothered by the slant should stop hand-wringing and start their own network.
S.E. Cupp
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.
Carter Glass
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Oscar Levant
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
A. S. Byatt
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
Edmund Burke
Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.
Gwen Ifill
The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.
Arundhati Roy
If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
George W. Bush
I don’t think consensus-building politics is what I’m meant to be doing.
Christopher Hitchens
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston Churchill
The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.
John Foster Dulles
People get involved not just in politics but in groups and sects and… forget the main reason why we’re here: to worship Allah.
Moeen Ali
Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
Molly Ivins
You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.
will.i.am
American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.
Robert Dallek
The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell
Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tire

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.
Newt Gingrich
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt
The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.
Abhijit Banerjee
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
George Jean Nathan