Politics Quotes

I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don't waste anytime thinking about future elections until we've done our jobs here.

Bob Riley

The so-called science of poll-taking is not a science at all but mere necromancy. People are unpredictable by nature, and although you can take a nation's pulse, you can't be sure that the nation hasn't just run up a flight of stairs.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

The total collapse of the public opinion polls shows that this country is in good health. A country that developed an airtight system of finding out in advance what was in people's minds would be uninhabitable.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

E.B. (Elwyn Brooks) White

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

Robert Teeter

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

Winston Churchill

I think politics is important. It's how we run our society. I think it should be natural to have an interest in the subject, and I almost don't understand why some people don't.

Chester Brown

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.

Roger Ebert

The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.

Shimon Peres

You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.

Bono

Politics is far more complicated than physics.

Albert Einstein

For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.

Wilfrid Laurier

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Meg Greenfield

People who leave Washington do so by way of the box... ballet or coffin.

Claiborne Pell

London in the '70s was a pretty catastrophic dump, I can tell you. We had every kind of industrial trouble we had severe energy problems we were under constant terrorist attack from Irish terrorist groups who started a bombing campaign in English cities politics were fantastically polarized between left and right.

Ian Mcewan

Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.

Don Marquis

Politics disgusts me.

Brigitte Bardot

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

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Prince

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Hilary Duff