1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.
Sarah Jessica Parker

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
Paul Wellstone

It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about money.
Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about power.
Paul Wellstone

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.
Paul Wellstone

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
Paul Wellstone

We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
Paul Wellstone

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

Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
Karl Rove

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.
Karl Rove

Negative politics have always been around.
Karl Rove

I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
Karl Rove

I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
Karl Rove

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
Frank Lautenberg

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.
Jesse Ventura

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.
Jesse Ventura

I'm not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I've just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.
Channing Tatum

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry Flynt