Politics Quotes

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

J. C. Watts

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.

Paul Weyrich

We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics.

Zach Galifianakis

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing.

John Podhoretz

Who doesn't want to shortcut the greatness.

Jackson Evans

I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.

Corazon Aquino

The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Kurt Vonnegut

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Zedong

If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.

Karl Rove

Now, I have always wanted to agree with Lady Bracknell that there is no earthly use for the upper and lower classes unless they set each other a good example. But I shouldn't pretend that the consensus itself was any of my concern. It was absurd and slightly despicable, in the first decade of Thatcher and Reagan, to hear former and actual radicals intone piously against 'the politics of confrontation.' I suppose that, if this collection has a point, it is the desire of one individual to see the idea of confrontation kept alive.

Christopher Hitchens

Politics is the science of urgencies.

Theodore Parker

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 could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.

Marat Safin

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.

Jeffrey Archer

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

John F. Kennedy

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill