Politics Quotes

In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.

Aung San Suu Kyi

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

Mark Twain

Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.

Mike Huckabee

Arkansas is a state where politics is retail.

Mike Huckabee

Many years ago I was so innocent I still considered it possible that we could become the humane and reasonable America so many members of my generation used to dream of. We dreamed of such an America during the Great Depression, when there were no jobs. And then we fought and often died for that dream during the Second World War, when there was no peace.But I know now that there is not a chance in hell of America becoming humane and reasonable. Because power corrupts us, and absolute power corrupts us absolutely. Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many lifeless bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas.

Kurt Vonnegut

Politics swings like a pendulum.

Ed Gillespie

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.

Eric Sevareid

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

Elisabeth Shue

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Trey Parker

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.

Al Franken

Money in politics is a huge issue.

Russ Feingold

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.

Ridley Scott

Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Gary Ackerman

All politics is local.

Thomas P. O'Neill

I'm not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.

Jane Seymour

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

Orson Scott Card

If I was forced to choose between the penitentiary and White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman

I understand the process of politics and the game of television.

John Sununu

La filosofía nos enseña a sentir incertidumbre ante las cosas que nos parecen evidentes. La propaganda, en cambio, nos enseña a aceptar como evidentes cosas sobre las que sería razonable suspender nuestro juicio o sentir dudas.

Aldous Huxley

Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey the laws too well. What satire on government can equal the severity of censure conveyed in the word Politic, which now for ages has signified cunning, intimating that the State is a trick?

Ralph Waldo Emerson