1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa

I haven't been very active in politics.
Clint Eastwood

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
Hillary Clinton

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

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

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
Paul Wellstone

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
Hubert H. Humphrey

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
John Adams

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
Hillary Clinton