Politics Quotes

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Joseph Stalin

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war.

John F. Kennedy

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

Tim Scott

When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me.

Ted Turner

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

John Major

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

R. Buckminster Fuller

I don't fancy myself a political commentator. I hate politics. I hate it.

Glenn Beck

Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes.

Yogi Berra

I have tried to write about politics in an allusive manner that draws upon other interests and to approach literature and criticism without ignoring the political dimension. Even if I have failed in this synthesis, I have found the attempt worth making.

Christopher Hitchens

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

John Jay Chapman

No matter how corrupt, greedy, and heartless our government, our corporations, our media, and our religious

Kurt Vonnegut

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.

Dick Durbin

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

Godfrey Reggio

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not. Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

Muqtada al Sadr

The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.

Plato

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Ambrose Bierce

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

John Major