Politics Quotes

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

I've been leading newsrooms for a while now and it's been an honor serving as Editor in Chief of N.J., but I really think that my best shot at moving the needle in politics is by getting close to it - by reading, reporting, tweeting and writing.

Ron Fournier

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

Karl Von Clausewitz

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Winston Churchill

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed with talkative intellectuals, full of witty disloyalties. The next week the main hotel is suddenly full of dinner-jackets and large hats. The girls are dressed as if for a weekend in the country. When one of the great men of the party comes through, the crowd edges respectfully away, murmuring loyal noises.

Anthony Sampson

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

One of the big changes in politics has been because families, individuals, have felt worried, insecure... worried about the economy, worried about their jobs, worried about their kids' futures... actually the disconnect between the public and media discourse and people's everyday concerns has become bigger not smaller.

Nick Clegg

The biggest problem with politics or running for the governor

Lance Armstrong, interview with

You should never ask actors about politics.

Liev Schreiber

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build A bridge even where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.

Angela Y. Davis

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte

It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.

Auberon Waugh

People with high ideals don't necessarily make good politicians. If clean politics is so important, we should leave the job to scientists and the clergy.

Michio Watanabe

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

Abraham Lincoln

The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.

Henry Bolingbroke