1,008 Quotes Regarding Politics


In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
Youssou N'Dour

Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.
Jim Hightower

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
Kate Millett

In politics, there are no friends.
Marian Wright Edelman

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
Kate Millett

Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.
Nicholas D. Kristof

Imagine a civilisation that's way in advance of us wants to communicate with us, and assist us in our development. The information we provide to them must reflect our highest aspirations and ideals, and not just be some crazy person's bizarre politics or religion.
Paul Davies

I never let my politics supersede my manners.
Darren Criss

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
Richard Lamm

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

I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
Kevin J. Anderson

If one of my boys was asking me if they should go into politics, I'd say there's only one reason to go into public life and that's to help people.
Evan Bayh

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.
Evan Bayh

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
Evan Bayh

Well, a lot of politics is communicating with people, and obviously comedy has something to do with that. I've been a producer and led people. Also, being a comedian, you're under pressure.
Al Franken

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
Moira Kelly

The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I'm looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
Al Franken

The sheep-people don't think for themselves anymore. You can say anything and it's the gospel truth and they don't have to go research it or anything, and they believe everything the news tells them. People don't go and do their own investigations if it's relationships or politics or anything.
Big Boi

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
Hugh Sidey

Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR.
Paul Weyrich