Politics Quotes

In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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.

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'

I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.

Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.

Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.

I feel at some point that the farm state politics will overwhelm the Florida politics.

I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.

Politics has become entertainment.

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.

The Olympics are coming... and it's a big problem in American politics, because the problem with holding the Olympics this fall is that we're all going to be focused on the Olympics, and it makes that window of opportunity for Gore to win the election that much smaller.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

If it weren't the problem of politics for me, it would be another. And yet, sometimes it's so difficult. And I feel sorry for myself. And then hate myself for this feeling of self-pity.

Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate.

It is necessary to take an active part in politics to observe how often the welfare of the party organization is put before the issues, even before the welfare of the commonwealth.

Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.

Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom.