Politics Quotes

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

Colin Powell

There are Seven Deadly Social Sins:--Politics without principle.--Wealth without work.--Commerce without morality.--Pleasure without conscience.--Education without character.--Science without humility.--Worship without sacrifice.

Mahatma Gandhi

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.

Nicholas D. Kristof

He could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Margot Asquith

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Roy Hattersley

I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.

John Key

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows.

Judd Gregg

There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.

Christopher Hitchens

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mahatma Gandhi

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Victor Hugo

We don't tend to write about disease in fiction - not just teen novels but all American novels - because it doesn't fit in with our idea of the heroic romantic epic. There is room only for sacrifice, heroism, war, politics and family struggle.

John Green

A politician is an ass upon which everyone has sat except a man.

e. e. (Edward Estlin) cummings

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

Revenge is one of the few things in politics that never gets lost in the mail or written off for a dime on the dollar like losers' campaign debts or pledges to help the Poor.

Hunter S. Thompson, Songs Of The

Al forms of consensus about great books and perennial problems, once stabilized, tend to deteriorate eventually into something philistine. The real life of the mind is always at the frontiers of what is already known. Those great books don't only need custodians and transmitters. To stay alive, they also need adversaries. The most interesting ideas are heresies.

Susan Sontag

Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department.

Harry Shearer

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

Bernard Baruch

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

Henry Adams

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Mahatma Gandhi

My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

Mikhail Gorbachev