Politics Quotes

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

Politics is cyclical.

I felt slightly superior to student politics, for instance. I had no reason to think this, but I thought of myself as slightly more seasoned. I became quite cynical talking to my student friends.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

Politics is applied biology.

An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.

Right now, we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.

Politics swings like a pendulum.

People like passion in politics.

On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.

I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.

I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.

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

It seems to be the thing now that young people are getting back into politics.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

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.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.