Politics Quotations | Page 4

I don't really have funny things to say about politics. I wish I did, but I don't.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

I entered politics from a completely different background from other people in this field, and that has helped me to see and deal with things differently.

Certainly, my advice is that communicating, lobbying, fundraising and engaging the public in policy and politics is far more exciting and inexpensive via the Internet. Old guard organizations like Common Cause had to evolve to embrace this new environment.

Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.

This is indeed not only relevant to Documentary but is evident is most type of film making. The film often mirrors the experience, understanding and politics of the director.

After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.

What right does Congress have to go around making laws just because they deem it necessary?

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

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

Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.

I've never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

You don't need to be straight to fight and die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.

Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost.

In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to have women on them.

Science fiction is a literary field crowded with strong opinions, and no SF novelist delivered himself more memorably of his views - on politics, sexuality, religion, and many other contentious topics - than Robert Heinlein.

Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well.

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.

The hardest thing to do in politics is campaign as someone you aren't. People can spot an imposter from a mile away.

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

I was forced to come into politics because Saakashvili had destroyed the opposition. I had a choice either to leave the country, because it was dangerous to live here, or to go into politics.

No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.

An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, the power to destroy.

What we ought not do is play politics with those who've been afflicted by disasters. This should not be controversial. Stop playing politics, do the right thing for the country and let's make sure we're not making politics with disaster relief.

I think one of the most threatening places to be in politics is a black conservative because there are so many liberals who want to continue to reinforce a stereotype that doesn't exist about America.

I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!

Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known.

Unfortunately, I think it's very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you'd probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.

We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes.

My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

Overall relations between the North and the South have developed in favor of national reconciliation, unity and reunification.

We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else.

A nation is a society united by a delusion about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbours.

And political parties, overanxious for vote catching, become tolerant to intolerant groups.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

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.

Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it's an important issue, but there's a reason that I don't talk about politics and why I'll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.

A politics that defines itself by difference holds no appeal for me.

They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.

All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

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

In a way, the road between Huaraz and the lodge is a metaphor for Peruvian politics. It used to be in good repair, and in some places still is.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer.

The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

That's the one thing I probably don't like about politics - the focus on the individual. To me, it's more important to get it done, whether I get the credit for it or not.

Politics are not the task of a Christian.

I believe there is a relationship between having an interest in the arts and the behaviour of society as a whole. Some politicians find it difficult that the arts is a weapon of happiness... Politics is often about deprivation rather than the opening up of ideas and nourishing creative endeavour.

You don't choose a party because it's the flavour of the month. I feel I will be able to work under a political system. I feel if people like me don't enter politics to bring change, who will?

I call it people-to-people politics and that's what politics should be about, reaching out and helping one another and touching one another about what we're going to do.

The presidents I served under don't have anything to do with my politics.

We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn't craft them. They didn't let us.

I've never really read any books about Washington, neither the politics nor the city.

Cory Doctorow should be too busy for lunch. He's co-editor of, and a prolific contributor to, one of the most influential blogs in the world, Boing Boing. Over the past decade the Canadian-born writer has published 16 books, mostly science fiction novels. He campaigns vigorously on the politics of the digital age.

There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties.

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

I don't do politics, I don't do religion, I don't do ethnic jokes.

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office.

Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

Nothing that is morally wrong can be politically right.

I have registered few titles like 'Bharat Bandh,' 'Calendar Girl,' 'Money Politics.' The titles just intrigued me, so I registered. I had a title, 'Jai Ho,' which I gave to Sohail Khan for his next film with Salman Khan. These are typical Madhur Bhandarkar kind of films. I may make a film or not on such titles... not sure yet.

The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election.

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.

I am committed to the idea of information politics. That is how contemporary politics are played out.

I am very close to my family, and there's something life-affirming about that. Even if you feel completely different from them and have totally different views on politics and ethics, you're still family and have that immediate acceptance.

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

Fascism is not in itself a new order of society. It is the future refusing to be born.

The artificial separation of politics and culture is nowhere more pronounced than in the discourse of foreign policy and international affairs.

I've learned a lot about what kind of actor I want or do not want to be while being on set. I sit back and observe how other actors treat the totem pole of set politics.

Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.

Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics.

Politics isn't just about doing the right thing. It's also about winning.

Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.