Politics Quotes

Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

Thomas Carlyle

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul Alinsky

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Charles Dickens

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.

Dennis Kucinich

I hate politics. I like to write about it, but to get involved in it, to try and make a lot of ignorant people do what you want them to do, waste of time. Go and write a book. It's more important and it'll last longer.

Wilbur Smith

Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.

Aung San Suu Kyi

I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together.

Ronald Reagan

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Anon.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

John Adams

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

Frank Lautenberg

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Jackie Robinson

We have never yet had a labor Government that knew what taking power really means; they always act like second-class citizens.

Dora Russell

One wanders to the left, another to the right. Both are equally in error, but, are seduced by different delusions.

Horace

I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races - I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office

Abraham Lincoln

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

H. Rap Brown

I just worry a lot. I'm a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don't want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It's a lot to ask of people, and it's a lot to see your friends go through. It's hard not to get emotional.

Valerie Jarrett

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

Oliver Stone

I don't want to be a politician. I don't like politics. It's petty it fights dirty.

John Mellencamp

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

Newt Gingrich

I kept a steel wall around my moral and sexual instincts - protecting them, I thought, from the threats of the real world. This gave me a tremendous advantage in politics, if not in my soul. The true me, my spiritual core, slipped further and further from reach.

James McGreevey