Politics Quotes

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now I'm not going to say what they were.

Julie Christie

Politics is the art of the next best.

Otto von Bismarck

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.

Jane Austen

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

Kate Millett

Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution

Mark Twain

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

Ronald Reagan

I mean, I went to a church school when I was younger and imbibed a certain amount of religion then but it was really in university that I got interested in religion and politics at the same time. I don't think as if it were one moment of conversion but my spiritual journey really began then.

Tony Blair

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political.

Abbas Kiarostami

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Dario Fo

Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.

Robert Teeter

At home you always have to be a politician. When you're abroad you almost feel yourself a statesman.

Harold MacMillan

As usual the Liberals offer a mixture of sound and original ideas. Unfortunately none of the sound ideas is original and none of the original ideas is sound.

Harold MacMillan

Don't let them tell us stories

Albert Camus

The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.

Benjamin Netanyahu

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

Barry Goldwater

The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

Malcolm Turnbull

I don't know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It's very much about the class structure.

Daniel Radcliffe

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

Bob Geldof