1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
David Miliband

My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
David Miliband

Politicians... talk in generalities and lies, and I think they've caused all our grief. They're so awful, they're really funny. I hate thinking this because my dad loved politics.
Paul Lynde

Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
Jimmy Fallon

People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.
Dennis Kucinich

My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
Dennis Kucinich

Whenever you discuss politics, it is always better to use individual names rather then the term neocon.
David Frum

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer

I came into politics because I wished to change things. You can't do that by lying to people you have to educate, and persuade, and carry them with you - and it's often a long haul.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Politics is not a healthy lifestyle.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

Short of being prime minister there isn't a better job in British politics than running London.
Kenneth Robert Livingstone

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
Ann Richards

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
Peggy Noonan

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.
Helen Gahagan

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.
Kathie Lee Gifford

The essential ingredient of politics is timing.
Pierre Trudeau

In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.
Wallace Shawn

I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right.
Jeffrey Archer