1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.
Bob Geldof

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.
Michelle Obama

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Ricardo Montalban

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.
Christopher Hitchens

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
Christopher Hitchens

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
Christopher Hitchens

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.
Jerry Saltz

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
Paul Valery

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.
Mark Cuban

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.
Paul Ryan

To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
Paul Ryan

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes.
Demetri Martin

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?
Jon Meacham

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Hedy Lamarr