Politics Quotes

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

Warren Beatty

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.

Pierre Trudeau

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Honore de Balzac

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child.

Dan Quayle

Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the back!

Dan Quayle

People that are really weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.

Dan Quayle

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.

James Hansen

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

Warren G. Harding

My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way.

Vinny Guadagnino

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.

Paul Wellstone

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

Fred F. Fielding

The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected.

Will Rogers

No party is as bad as its leaders.

Will Rogers

I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.

Will Rogers

The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

Will Rogers

The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Will Rogers

This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

Will Rogers

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

Will Rogers

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau