Politics Quotes

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

Vladimir Lenin

I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.

Boss Tweed

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

Mark Cuban

African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Alveda King

Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

William Shakespeare

A politician is one that would circumvent God.

William Shakespeare

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Paul Wellstone

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable...the art of the next best.

Otto von Bismarck, Remark to Pri

I never have been involved in politics.

Rick Warren

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Mitt Romney

Very few people go into politics to be reviled.

Andrew Cuomo

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

J. C. Watts

My mother, Lillie Specter, was an angel and totally uninterested in politics.

Arlen Specter

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

Barack Obama

Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society.

Edward C. Banfield

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

Konrad Adenauer

Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Government from running amok by hamstringing it.

Ambrose Bierce

I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.

Charles Kennedy

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.

Ambrose Bierce

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend

Abraham Lincoln