Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Politics.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
E. L. Doctorow
There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
John Galsworthy
I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
Robert Orben
Voting is a civic sacrament.
Theodore Hesburgh
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
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
George Will
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
George Bernard Shaw
We have needed to define ourselves by reclaiming the words that define us. They have used language as weapons. When we open ourselves to what they say and how they say it, our narrow prejudices evaporate and we are nourished and armed.
Selma James
It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
Jack Buck
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle
You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy.
Michael Bloomberg
Politics is not about power.
Paul Wellstone
Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it.
Sarah Palin
Policies that emanate from ivory towers often have an adverse impact on the people out in the field who are fighting the wars or bringing in the revenues.
Colin Powell
Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.
Bob Geldof
The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Hunter S. Thompson
A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.
W. Somerset Maugham
People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
Andrew Cuomo
It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
Barry Goldwater
