American capitalism is predatory, and American politics are corrupt: The same thing is true in England and the same in France; but in all these three countries the dominating fact is that whenever the people get ready to change the government, they can change it.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn’t want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

I’m not driven to get back into politics. It’s not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I’ve been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I guess probably in my time in politics, it continued to be affirmed to me that the African-American community, despite being subscription television’s most valuable customers, they are very underserved by cable and satellite television programming options.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you’re a Democrat. Sometimes that’s good, obviously, and sometimes that’s obviously bad. But in the news business, there’s no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.

Good policy makes good politics and what I’ve done has been good politics.

I never got into politics for it to be a career.

I’m looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I’m not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.

Everything is politics

I don’t like to dabble in anything I don’t do well. I don’t talk politics.

Rhetoric coming out of the White House is making it worse, people are experiencing real pain, we’ve got to have national leadership calling for calm and legitimate concern for protestors.

It is devastating that a celebration of America was ripped apart by our uniquely American plague, a day dedicated to freedom has put into stark relief the one freedom we, as a nation, refuse to uphold : The freedom of our fellow citizens to live without the daily fear of gun violence.

People who are denigrating her are aggrandizing themselves, right now, she seems to be an albatross.

The 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago will welcome people from across the nation to an unforgettable event highlighting our party’s vision for lifting up working families and those who too often have been left out and left behind.

I’m involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.

There is no leisure about politics

Politics doesn’t interest me in the least.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

The security intended to the general liberty consists in the frequent election and in the rotation of the members of Congress.

The nation which reposes on the pillow of political confidence, will sooner or later end its political existence in a deadly lethargy.

There are more instances of the abridgment of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe in blood for centuries.

[Letter objecting to the use of government land for churches, 1803]

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed.

I have always believed the iron rule of politics was that women don’t vote for men who yell.

The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you’d have an uprising.

The high point was that the people are really nice – despite the crazy politics – and I loved being there. The hardest part was knowing some of the things I was probably going to write about Texas would make those nice people very unhappy.

I’m Canadian so American politics are not really in my wheelhouse.

We have to play football and not talk. We don’t talk about politics, the personal opinions, and debates – you take them home. We only talk about football. That’s what we are here for.

It’s a tough world out there. You’re going to prepare yourself for politics, bad bosses, hating employees – and usually when you’re the absolute best, you get hated on the most.

Opening acts are hard, really hard. There’s more politics involved than music, sometimes.

The ridiculous way that workplace politics are conducted completely gets in the way of excellence in America.

I was in the Commons recently and saw a young lady wearing a nice pair of shoes. I said I liked them and she said my shoes were the reason she became involved in politics.

Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so

A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realizes: hey, there are votes in this!

Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.

If you are from an ordinary working class family, life is just much harder than many people in politics realise

If Colin Powell was president, I’d follow him. I wanna get into politics. That’s the way for us to overcome a lot of our obstacles.

There is nothing so bad that politics cannot make it worse

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics

Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.

Economics is a political argument. It is not – and can never be – a science; there are no objective truths in economics that can be established independently of political, and frequently moral, judgements. Therefore, when faced with an economic argument, you must ask the age-old question ‘Cui bono?’ (Who benefits?), first made famous by the Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero.

Publicity is the engine of politics.

The politics of the possible was being replaced by the politics of purity.

He was not a warm person, but he seemed to be, which in politics was more important.

Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men.

As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion, and don’t talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men

Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part, and by no means the greatest part.

I often thought that if there had been a good rap group around in those days, I might have chosen a career in music instead of politics.

I don’t know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

Those who are not interested in politics will be forever ruled by those who are.

It is not enough to know what we are against. We must also know what we are for.

I hate all politics. I don’t like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

Politics ruins the character.

Politics is no exact science.

Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable – the art of the next best.

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

We need more of the office desk and less of the show window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight

If you hate violence and don’t believe in politics, the only major remedy remaining is education.

A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims… but accomplices.

Power-worship blurs political judgment ­because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right.

And so it is in politics, dear brother, Each for himself alone, there is no other.

In politics as in philosophy, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most others, is to be honest and just ourselves and to exact it from others, meddling as little as possible in their affairs where our own are not involved. If this maxim was generally adopted, wars would cease and our swords would soon be converted into reap hooks and our harvests be more peaceful, abundant, and happy.

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

A week is a long time in politics.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

It is always important in matters of high politics to know what you do not know. Those who think that they know, but are mistaken, and act upon their mistakes, are the most dangerous people to have in charge.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.

When one side only of a story is heard, and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it, insensibly.

The important question is, “how many hands have I shaked?”

I’m completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. … These two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.

There is in fact no such thing as art for art’s sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

I don’t know a lot about politics, but I can recognise a good party man when I see one.

When the 1st amendment doesn’t work, should we move to the next one America?

The roots of violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principles.

The English in politics are as the old Hebrews in religion, ‘a favored and peculiar people.

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

It’s true that it is within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it’s not going to solve the problems

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people’s struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

A decline of public morals in the United States will probably be marked by the abuse of the power of impeachment as a means of crushing political adversaries.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration… that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who’s occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can’t be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.

In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical
equation stands forever.

The awareness that we are all human beings together has become lost in war and through politics

I’m scared to be political. You get too powerful, and more people try to take you out.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.

Gentlemen, you can’t fight in here. This is the war room

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.