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Top Quotes About Politics
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully – love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
Tony Snow
Confusion
Fear
Joy
Longing
Love
Lust
Moods
Music
Obvious
Politics
Writers
Yearning
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
Sargent Shriver
Politics
You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.
Dan Quayle
Policy
Politics
I think Barack Obama has brought a new level of ethical standards to Washington. Has he changed some basic hard-knuckle politics? No. You need hard-knuckle politics to succeed.
Ed Rendell
Politics
Succeed
Washington
Until the June 1967 war I was completely caught up in the life of a young professor of English. Beginning in 1968, I started to think, write, and travel as someone who felt himself to be directly involved in the renaissance of Palestinian life and politics.
Edward Said
Beginning
English
June
Life
Politics
Travel
War
It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.
Susan George
Now
People
Politics
Let’s just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.
Nancy Pelosi
American
Government
People
Politics
Responsibility
Right
Four years in the White House and two presidential campaigns is an awful long time. In politics, every year in the White House is like dog years, six years off your life.
George Stephanopoulos
Life
Politics
Time
Years
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
William Howard Taft
Laws
Legislators
Politics
Results
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that’s usually what I focus on.
Don Henley
Ecology
Focus
Interest
Men
Politics
Relationships
Religion
Women
Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
Kinky Friedman
Experience
Politics
When you look at our world, the truth is that we’re all under the influence of politics.
Roland Joffe
Influence
Politics
Truth
World
The decision as to why a show makes it has to do with politics and money.
Ted Shackelford
Decision
Money
Politics
America’s most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
Cal Thomas
America
Failure
Love
Politics
Power
So my degree was in political science, which I think was – the closest I could come to marketing is politics.
Steve Case
Marketing
Politics
Science
I cry, sometimes, because I’m not 20 years younger, and I’m not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
Oriana Fallaci
Politics
Sacrifice
Writing
Years
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
George McGovern
Act
Confidence
Faith
Politics
Public
Liberalism is Rationalism in politics.
Francis Parker Yockey
Liberalism
Politics
Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.
Harry Hay
Giving
Identity
Politics
Support
I may not be the world’s best glad-handing politician, but I’ve been elected mayor twice. I understand politics. And I definitely understand where the state line is.
Anthony A. Williams
May
Politics
State
World
Let’s clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.
Mark Pryor
Politics
Senate
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that’s so striking is the whole area of politics.
Donald Kagan
Politics
I call it people-to-people politics and that’s what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we’re going to do.
Sonny Perdue
People
Politics
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber
American
Politics
Women
Wrong
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Bronowski
Corruption
Politics
Power
Science
Politics is a people business. I like people.
Laura Bush
Business
People
Politics
I have absolutely zero interest in politics.
Jerry Hall
Interest
Politics
Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.
John Morley
Choice
Lies
Politics
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
Karl Rove
American
Old
Politics
Want
Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It’s not about stabbing each other in the back; it’s about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
Ben Nicholson
Community
Dreams
Happiness
People
Politics
The politics of judges is getting to be red hot.
Lindsey Graham
Judges
Politics
When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics.
Frank Rich
Politics
Soul
Truth
I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.
Simon Cowell
Country
People
Politics
Potential
I do not understand how anyone can, in good conscience, tell a family whose child is suffering from a life-threatening disease that politics is more important than finding a cure.
Jim Doyle
Conscience
Cure
Disease
Family
Life
Politics
Suffering
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery
Art
Business
People
Politics
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
Feet
People
Politics
Vote
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other’s pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce
Alliance
Politics
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear…’
Rutherford B. Hayes
Country
Desire
People
Politics
The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.
Peggy Noonan
Nothing
Oceans
Politics
Everybody gets a little dose of Shakespeare. He’s the greatest playwright in the English language, but his politics are fairly square.
Alex Cox
English
Language
Politics
Shakespeare
Politics is gut; commercials are gut.
Frank Luntz
Politics
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
Karl Von Clausewitz
Politics
War
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
John Major
Conservative
Politics
Regret
Voice
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
Charles Dudley Warner
Politics
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
Christian Nestell Bovee
Being
Merit
Politics
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
Job
Politics
Politics itself is so unsexy, isn’t it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored – not used as a vehicle – the results can be really interesting.
Marisa Tomei
Politics
Results
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
People
Politics
Profession
Rights
In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
Clare Boothe Luce
Letters
Men
Politics
Vote
Women
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Disgrace
Politics
Profession
Succeed
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