Politics Quotes

Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.

Mason Cooley

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.

Peter Steele

As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Jerry Falwell

A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine.

Thomas Jefferson

You had to have these peasant leaders quickly in this sort of war and a real peasant leader might be a little too much like Pablo. You couldn't wait for the real Peasant Leader to arrive and he might have too many peasant characteristics when he did. So you had to manifacture one. At that, from what he had seen of Campesino, with his black beard, his thick negroid lips, and his feverish, staring eyes, he thought he might give almost as much trouble as a real peasant leader. The last time he had seen him he seemed to have gotten to believe his own publicity and think he was a peasant.

Ernest Hemingway

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the land question in Zimbabwe is the single most decisive one.

Christopher Hitchens

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

George Orwell

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 still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.

Dan Rather

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Adlai E. Stevenson

What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.

Jon Bon Jovi

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

Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.

Dick Morris

In politics the middle way is none at all.

John Adams

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Cal Thomas

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Lester Bangs

The secret of getting things done is to act!

Dante Alighieri

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

Sonny Perdue