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"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
Plato"The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis."
Dante Alighieri"Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed."
Mao Zedong"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything."
Joseph Stalin"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"If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve."
William Tecumseh Sherman"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."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did."
Newt Gingrich"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
Ernest Benn"Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing."
Bernard Baruch"If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all."
Noam Chomsky"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
H. L. Mencken"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
Emma Goldman"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand."
Milton Friedman"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"It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
Mahatma Gandhi"Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party."
Herbert Hoover"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."
Aesop"Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
Ambrose Bierce"Politics have no relation to morals."
Niccolo Machiavelli"The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy."
Theodore White"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
Mark Twain"I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office."
Andrew Jackson"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."
Napoleon Bonaparte"You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog."
Harry S Truman"Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one."
A. J. Liebling"Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians."
Charles de Gaulle"Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you."
Ralph Nader"In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith."
J. William Fulbright"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
Abraham Lincoln"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."
John Quincy Adams"A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits."
Woodrow Wilson"Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Good government is good politics."
Richard J. Daley"Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others."
Ambrose Bierce"Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas."
Lewis Black"Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges."
Anna Lindh"Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable."
Bill Maher"A fool and his money are soon elected."
Will Rogers"We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate."
Kin Hubbard"The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face."
Clare Boothe Luce"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."
Edmund Burke"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."
Caskie Stinnett"We have, I fear, confused power with greatness."
Stewart Udall"People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House."
Robin Williams"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
Charles de Gaulle"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules."
Ross Perot"Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism."
Maajid Nawaz"Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left."
Chris Cooper"Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable."
Charles Edison"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."
H. L. Mencken"You have not converted a man because you have silenced him."
John Morley"The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters."
Fidel Castro"In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant."
Charles de Gaulle"I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts."
Will Rogers"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
Emma Goldman"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."
Henry Kissinger"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."
Jose Antonio Vargas"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"Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues."
James Dobson"Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully."
Jon Katz"There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer."
Gertrude Stein"A week is a long time in politics."
Harold Wilson"It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen."
George MacDonald"A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money."
Carter Glass"The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary."
Gloria Steinem"'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"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"The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."
John Stuart Mill"A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader."
Harry S Truman"Life without liberty is like a body without spirit."
Khalil Gibran"There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water."
Alan Clark"Most of leaders in Philippine politics come from rich family."
Manny Pacquiao"That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution."
Angela Merkel"The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics."
Brianna Wu"When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it."
Clarence Darrow"Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together."
Daniel Webster"The most important political office is that of the private citizen."
Louis D. Brandeis"Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust."
Grover Cleveland"Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is."
Edward Kennedy"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."
William O. Douglas"The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office."
Herbert Hoover"Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
Gore Vidal"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"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
Oscar Levant"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate."
Charles de Gaulle"I discourage a cult of personality."
Newt Gingrich"I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot."
Gary Hart"Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues."
George Will"In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
George Orwell"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."
Will Rogers"Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous."
Jordan Peterson"I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think."
Donna Brazile"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."
Neil deGrasse Tyson"I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground."
T. D. Jakes"Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation."
Pierre Poilievre"The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other."
Will Rogers"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."
Ronald Reagan"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."
Barry Goldwater"What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?"
Gilbert Highet"In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport."
Dick Gregory"Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor."
Lady Bird Johnson"Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night."
Ted Cruz"Man is by nature a political animal."
Aristotle"He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers."
Henry Adams"If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't."
Hyman Rickover"Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous."
Rahul Gandhi"Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against."
W. C. Fields"Politics is the art of controlling your environment."
Hunter S. Thompson"I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny."
Zell Miller"Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom."
Jim Hightower"Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted."
Maurice Saatchi"Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war."
Maria Montessori"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"That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics."
John Wilkes"I don't believe in politics. I'm an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves."
Woody Harrelson"Surgeon generals are appointed by presidents, but our work isn't about politics. Our highest duty to to the public. Our true guide is science. Our job is to speak the truth about public health, even when it's controversial or perceived as political."
Vivek Murthy"Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories."
Jacques Perrin"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Robert Louis Stevenson"I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant. -Sir Mix-a"
Lot"On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office."
Ted Cruz"There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives."
John Reid"I'm into politics - I'm interested in the election and how pissed off people get."
Pauly Shore"Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society."
George Soros"It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms."
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr."The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river."
Ross Perot"One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are."
Cal Thomas"Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so."
Gore Vidal"Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness."
Aristotle"Voting is a civic sacrament."
Theodore Hesburgh"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"The public seldom forgive twice."
Johann Kaspar Lavater"Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
Winston Churchill"If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
Winston Churchill"Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity."
Russell Baker"There is no gambling like politics."
Benjamin Disraeli"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."
Abbas Kiarostami"Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
Henry Adams"Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state."
Max Weber"Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
Aristotle"Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least."
Robert Byrne"I paid too heavy a price for perestroika."
Mikhail Gorbachev"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
Margaret Thatcher"I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics."
T. S. Eliot"Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about."
Gerard Way"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"All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics."
August Wilson"Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn't matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere."
Shane Smith"Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger."
Mario Puzo"I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice."
Mark Cuban"I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?"
Mario Balotelli"In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours."
Willie Brown"What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics."
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam"The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible."
Hillary Clinton"Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it."
Lyndon B. Johnson"Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives."
John Stuart Mill"We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy."
Martin L. Gross"So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy."
Roger Nash Baldwin"One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us."
Condoleezza Rice"The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics."
Emmeline Pankhurst"If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business."
Charles E. Merrill"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
Aldous Huxley"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong."
Richard Armour"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"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world."
Reinhold Niebuhr"Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."
Mahatma Gandhi"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."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry."
Frank Zappa"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend."
Thomas Jefferson"There is this concept of politics as a dirty game. It's a difficult game, but it doesn't have to be dirty. I think this is what we need to bring to politics. I think politics around the world has very often been captured by big interests - 'lobbies' they call them in the States."
George Papandreou"When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants."
Emmanuel Macron"There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?"
Ted Cruz"Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin."
Vladimir Lenin"In the American 'melting pot,' identity politics wants to smash that pot - to bring us back to the Dark Ages, when collaboration was sparse."
Greg Gutfeld"I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it."
Maira Kalman"Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business."
will.i.am"Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better."
Atifete Jahjaga"In 2003, I wrote a New York Times best-seller called 'Shut Up & Sing,' in which I criticized celebrities like the Dixie Chicks & Barbra Streisand who were trashing then-President George W. Bush. I have used a variation of that title for more than 15 years to respond to performers who sound off on politics."
Laura Ingraham"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration."
Warren G. Harding"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
Robert Kennedy"You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt."
Daniel Hannan"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
Arthur C. Clarke"Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?"
Robert Orben"The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs."
Alphonse de Lamartine"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
Napoleon Bonaparte"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."
Bill Nye"Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned."
Milton Friedman"The world is governed by opinion."
William Ellery Channing"Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty."
Hubert H. Humphrey"Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one."
Honeysuckle Weeks"One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state."
Noam Chomsky"Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics."
Mark McKinnon"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man."
Ronald Reagan"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"There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle."
Alexis de Tocqueville"Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back."
James Carville"I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me."
Nas"The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country."
Jerry Falwell"Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood."
Jonathan Haidt"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. -Jamie"
Lynn Sigler"Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it."
Beau Willimon"The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan."
Lal Bahadur Shastri"Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain."
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran"As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism."
Angela Davis"Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics."
Max Weber"You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to."
Molly Ivins"The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice."
Malcolm Turnbull"I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business."
Richard M. Nixon"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
Edmund Burke"I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes."
Bill Engvall"It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody."
Richard M. Nixon"I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
Adlai Stevenson I"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"Oh, that lovely title, ex-president."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving."
Robertson Davies"Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time."
E. B. White"What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again."
Estelle Morris"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge"Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally."
Ulrich Beck"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Jeff Rich"Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
Winston Churchill"You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat."
Jackie Kennedy"Greatness will come by looking forward - untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values - and by changing our nation's future."
Pete Buttigieg"To err is human. To blame someone else is politics."
Hubert H. Humphrey"Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences."
Stone Gossard"I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen."
Mo Ibrahim"Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of."
Justin Trudeau"Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic?"
Robert Novak"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."
Shashi Tharoor"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty."
Edgar Mitchell"I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days."
Gerhard Schroder"I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible."
Dan Quayle"Party honesty is party expediency."
Grover Cleveland"Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds."
Thurgood Marshall"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.'"
Ralph Nader"Under every stone lurks a politician."
Aristophanes"It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say."
Abba Eban"The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded."
Pam Ferris"I don't think we have the right haircut or tattoos for politics."
Al Jourgensen"I worked as long in a fish and chip shop as I did in Parliament. I've had particular experiences in politics, but they're not my only ones, and they're not the ones that defined me."
Jacinda Ardern"Politics is the science of urgencies."
Theodore Parker"Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose."
George Will"The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun."
R. Buckminster Fuller"People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician."
Eleanor Clift"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee"The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything."
Big Boi"Politics are not the task of a Christian."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer"I'm sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual."
Gavin Newsom"In politics, an organized minority is a political majority."
Jesse Jackson"Politics is a contact sport."
Steve Chabot"I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them."
Steven Wright"'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter."
G. Willow Wilson"There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects."
Ian Botham"I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth."
Peter Steele"Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial."
Erma Bombeck"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
John W. Gardner"When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites."
William Hague"In politics nothing is contemptible."
Benjamin Disraeli"I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot."
Jeane Kirkpatrick"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."
John F. Kennedy"A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt."
Woodrow Wilson"A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead."
Leo Rosten"The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters."
Robert Reich"It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom."
Joko Widodo"Politics and ethics belong to different worlds."
Adam Michnik"Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts."
Hans Eysenck"Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class."
B. R. Ambedkar"Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear."
William E. Gladstone"Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless."
Milton Friedman"Politics is the art of the possible."
Otto von Bismarck"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"Politics is not my cup of tea. I would like to focus on research and education, and will also work to help start-up ecosystem."
Kris Gopalakrishnan"Politics makes me sick."
William Howard Taft"I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics."
Richie Furay"I'm a Republican. I may go into politics myself."
Lou Ferrigno"When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself."
Albert Hammond, Jr."Politics makes strange bedfellows."
Charles Dudley Warner"Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable."
Ana Navarro"Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics."
Warren Beatty"At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else."
Shirley Chisholm"I didn't know my Dad - he moved out early. And my mom's politics were kind of hardscrabble. She didn't think about Democrats or Republicans. She thought about who made sense. I've been both in my life."
Dennis Miller"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."
Adlai Stevenson I"When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power."
Maggie Gallagher"A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life."
John Stuart Mill"If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide."
Meg Greenfield"Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct."
Thomas Jefferson"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict."
Unknown"Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good."
Pope Francis"It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics."
Robert Byrd"Sacrifice is putting country before party and principles before politics. It is not defending the indefensible, protecting the powerful, or staying silent in the face of injustice just because you'd like to keep your job."
S.E. Cupp"I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all."
William Gilbert"When I retired from the military, I come home. And the reason why I got into politics is, you know, I spent a lot of time away from my wife and my kids. And I come home, and I found out I have kids in my backyard that have it worse than the children I saw in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Richard Ojeda"I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics."
Yehuda Amichai"The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare."
John Major"Reality TV is flat with the anti-cultural imperatives of business: cheap to make, it does ideological work even when it is not giving guru status to dull business people. It fits in with capitalism's anti-mythic myth: the idea that we have liberated ourselves from the dangerous illusions allegedly propagated by art and politics."
Mark Fisher"It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy."
Khaleda Zia"The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan"Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied."
Otto von Bismarck"Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics."
Marquis de Lafayette"Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment."
Martin Shkreli"Politics is downstream from culture."
Ben Domenech"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."
Art Buchwald"Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.' -Jay"
Z"My feet are firmly planted in my political ideology. To me, it's being authentic in every area, and that includes politics."
Natasha Rothwell"Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down."
Al Franken"Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear."
Naomi Klein"When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers."
Imelda Marcos"You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip."
Johnny Isakson"There might be some serious fun in politics."
Hunter S. Thompson"The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does."
Bill Vaughan"I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows."
Ed Koch"Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative."
John Kenneth Galbraith"Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."
Thomas Babington Macaulay"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"In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships."
Alexis de Tocqueville"'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact."
Naomi Wolf"Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are."
Charles Dance"Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value."
R. Buckminster Fuller"First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals."
John Avlon"Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote."
William E. Simon"Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around."
Gilbert K. Chesterton"You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you."
Kerry Washington"University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small."
Henry Kissinger"American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions."
Robert Dallek"The so-called cancel culture on the Internet, the extremism that sometimes flares up on university campuses and newsrooms, and the exaggerated claims of those who practice identity politics are a political and cultural problem that will require real bravery to fight."
Anne Applebaum"I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you're constantly focused on scoring hits against each one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind."
Jacinda Ardern"Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. -Sun Yat"
sen"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"As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother."
Benazir Bhutto"Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long."
Hunter S. Thompson"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."
Barack Obama"When 'Ruby Sparks' came out, I had to do so many interviews where I had to explain the film and my politics. And I think there was a willful misunderstanding by some people. They thought the movie was trying to perpetrate the thing the movie was deconstructing."
Zoe Kazan"In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative."
Ted Cruz"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"There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties."
Frank Luntz"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined."
Neal Barnard"Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois."
Dick Durbin"They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men."
Clare Boothe Luce"A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot."
William Randolph"The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong."
Fidel Castro"Politics is applesauce."
Will Rogers"Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized."
Joseph Sobran"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"I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."
Newt Gingrich"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks."
Doug Larson"An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied."
Arnold H. Glasow"All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway."
Harry S Truman"All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats."
Groucho Marx"We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error."
Tyler Winklevoss"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"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"I don't know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing."
Norm MacDonald"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."
Herbert Hoover"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."
Paul Wellstone"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."
Ratan Tata"Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable."
John Kenneth Galbraith"The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion."
Lord Hailsham"Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed."
Hans Magnus Enzensberger"If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents."
Ed Koch"And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office."
Christy Romano"As you make your bed, so you must lie in it."
Daniel J. Boorstin"For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred."
John W. Gardner"The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes."
Matt Damon"Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!"
David Brin"By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over."
Gore Vidal"Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates."
Gore Vidal"Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours."
Grover Cleveland"As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum."
Mark McKinnon"Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented."
Molly Ivins"There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel."
Vladimir Lenin"Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis."
Michael Ignatieff"I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you."
Ann Richards"The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered."
Roy Jenkins"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"The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place."
John G. Diefenbaker"Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics."
Audrey Hepburn"The cliche in American politics is that one week is an eternity."
Christopher Buckley"After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain."
George Wallace"In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way."
Franklin D. Roosevelt"A war for a great principle ennobles a nation."
Albert Pike"In politics the middle way is none at all."
John Adams"In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution."
Elon Musk"I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics."
Ann Richards"I don't get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can't do anything."
Harry Triguboff"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated."
Will Rogers"Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future."
Jimmy Carter"When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy."
Montesquieu"This country has moved away from the politics of caste, nepotism, and appeasement."
Amit Shah"Social work and politics never go together although the intention behind politics is social work."
Suresh Gopi"If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval."
Hillary Clinton"Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you."
Michael Cimino"I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier."
Channing Tatum"When I was much younger, my siblings and I would routinely tune in to watch 'Bill Nye the Science Guy' on PBS. He was a fascinating instructor bent on helping kids achieve a basic understanding of science. When he engaged in politics, it was only very briefly if at all."
Ben Domenech"Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions."
Joseph Crowley"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."
Rebecca Solnit"The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee"The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything."
Andrew Lloyd Webber"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you."
Pericles"My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics."
Dennis Kucinich"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
Mark Twain"The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal."
Erich Fromm"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."
Nelson Mandela"When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue."
Yoshihiko Noda"I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business."
Sydney Pollack"If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry."
Nancy Pelosi"China's republican politics is like a child who just started schooling. He must have a good teacher and be surrounded by good friends. By the same token, the Chinese people, new to the republican politics, must be educated properly. The revolutionary government should be the people's tutor to impart advanced awareness and experience. -Sun Yat"
sen"The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time."
Naomi Alderman"I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest."
Aneurin Bevan"Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics."
David Attenborough"The rise of civic society is not a negation of politics, but marks an opportunity for the involvement of the people. -Ko Wen"
je"I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football."
Trey Parker"True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity."
Greg Gutfeld"You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time."
Rob McKenna"I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching."
Justin Trudeau"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power."
Jacob Bronowski"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."
Leonard Bernstein"There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand."
Annie Besant"The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets."
Lysander Spooner"I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around."
Eva Green"Art is inherently political. Even trying to make a film that has nothing to do with politics is, in and of itself, a political act."
Barry Jenkins"People are gravitating towards Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders because they are doing their own thing. I think people are trying to cut out the middle man and just get to the source and get away from Washington politics."
Dierks Bentley"The secret of getting things done is to act!"
Dante Alighieri"When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose."
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw"I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy."
John Adams"Politics is a blood sport."
Aneurin Bevan"Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country."
Ricardo Montalban"Politics is applied biology."
Ernst Haeckel"I have my own political views and ideologies, but will not enter politics for sure."
Sreenivasan"So much of the time, in politics, we try to come up with these clever turns of phrase, slogans or messages, but what the public really wants is just the simple facts."
Pierre Poilievre"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why."
Sidney Hillman"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"Liberalism is Rationalism in politics."
Francis Parker Yockey"I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country."
Taika Waititi"It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life."
Godfrey Reggio"Politics is show business for ugly people."
Paul Begala"Everything is politics."
Thomas Mann"I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious."
Oliver Stone"I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office."
Thomas Jefferson"You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord."
Barbara Bush"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."
Vivienne Westwood"As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election. -Park Won"
soon"The colonial period has been the proving ground in America for the new social history, which concentrates on the ordinary doings of ordinary people rather than on high culture and high politics. Unfortunately ordinary people, almost by definition, leave behind only faint traces of their existence."
Edmund Morgan"I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world."
Mary Lynn Rajskub"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."
Donald Rumsfeld"I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look."
Dilip Kumar"You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns."
Clive Sinclair"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."
Henry Adams"The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey."
Kathryn Bigelow"I hope I represent a type of politics where we bring people together, where we inspire people - and we do it with this motivation of building a world that's better for everybody."
Jagmeet Singh"Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects."
Lester B. Pearson"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."
Charlie Crist"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
John Kenneth Galbraith"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"I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking."
Ray Bradbury"Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics."
Victor Pinchuk"My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election."
Liev Schreiber"The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges."
Benazir Bhutto"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."
Napoleon Bonaparte"Television is democracy at its ugliest."
Paddy Chayefsky"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb."
Spiro T. Agnew"I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something."
Woodrow Wilson"There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics."
Norman Foster"You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
Charles Bukowski"Until the 20th century, medicine was more like politics than physics. Its forecasts were often bogus and its record grim. In the 1920s, statisticians invaded medicine and devised randomised controlled trials. Doctors, hating the challenge to their prestige, resisted but lost. Evidence-based medicine became routine and saved millions of lives."
Dominic Cummings"I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that."
Moira Kelly"Politics should not interfere with sports. And sports should impact politics."
Vladimir Putin"Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc."
Friedrich Engels"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 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."
Walter Cronkite"War is the continuation of politics by other means."
Carl von Clausewitz"We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms."
Gloria Macapagal Arroyo"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."
Atifete Jahjaga"The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life."
Molly Ivins"Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will."
Mikhail Bakunin"Whenever you're talking about using humor in politics or in a policy speech or in a serious moment, you're talking about using it as a tool to engage people. That's why putting a joke in a political speech is a luxury, and it is always a risk."
Jon Lovett"Politics is not something most people have to do every day. Their daily lives are much more influenced by job opportunities, whether the country is in a recession or a boom period. If you really want to understand what drives American history, look at the economic... side."
H. W. Brands"Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold."
Robert Kiyosaki"To me, politics is a pile of tricks."
Tracy Morgan"Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible."
Ben Okri"In politics, there are no friends."
Marian Wright Edelman"The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game."
Jonathan Sacks"Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics."
George J. Mitchell"In politics and life, timing is everything."
Tina Smith"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times."
Winston Churchill"A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism."
Walter Cronkite"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 will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be."
Marshall McLuhan"Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done."
Zygmunt Bauman"In Britain, politicians who openly discuss their spirituality are about as welcome as Jehovah' s Witnesses on the doorstep, and the British associate the mixture of politics and religion as a heady cocktail best reserved for the mass irrationality of Northern Ireland, Iran, Kashmir, and the Middle East."
Gavin Esler"Sports and politics don't mix."
Eric Heiden"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."
Mao Zedong"My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all."
Winfield Scott Hancock"In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"
Barack Obama"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."
Gabriel Iglesias"Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It's the federal government and the Justice Department. It's a fraud; it's a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it."
James Meredith"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
Brian Mulroney"I'm not an expert on politics, but there's a bunch of bad people at the top who care about lining their own pockets before creating a society that looks after the vulnerable."
Sam Fender"When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything."
Dwight D. Eisenhower"It's the sad thing about entertainment: it's not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn't need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn't ruin their marketing."
Jake Roberts"I think good governance and good politics can go together."
N. Chandrababu Naidu"Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known."
Donella Meadows"The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age."
Rebecca MacKinnon"Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time."
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
Paul Valery"I am not a political person, so I cannot comment on politics."
Andrew Tan"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte"Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
Winston Churchill"In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant."
Donna Brazile"Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen."
Imelda Marcos"I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt."
Anne Wojcicki"I try not to mix the politics as much with the band, per se, because my political views are my own; they're not necessarily the band's."
David Draiman"As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate."
Beck"The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia."
Otto von Bismarck"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning."
Adlai Stevenson I"I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions."
Bjork"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."
Peggy Noonan"When citizens believe that the elite care more about those across the ocean than those across the train tracks, insurance has broken down, we divide into factions, and those who are left behind become angry and disillusioned with a politics that no longer serves them."
Angus Deaton"China-Pakistan relationship is indeed special because it transcends the changes of the times and politics and represents a fine example of friendly state-to-state interactions."
Li Keqiang"Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'"
Prince"I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting."
Alexandra Fuller"I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare."
Oliver Tambo