c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.
— Park Geun-hye
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
— Hunter S. Thompson
It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
— Ronald Reagan
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
— Ambrose Bierce
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.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges.
— Anna Lindh
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
— Winston Churchill
We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
— James McGreevey
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.
— Gail Collins
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
— Mahatma Gandhi
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
— Emma Goldman
The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.
— Fidel Castro
Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
— David Attenborough
The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.
— Mikhail Kalashnikov
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.
— Jackie Kennedy
In politics the middle way is none at all.
— John Adams
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
— Pope John Paul II
I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.
— Sachin Tendulkar
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
— Henry Kissinger
In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.
— Catherine the Great
First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.
— Nate Silver
Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics.
— Max Weber
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.
— Marquis de Lafayette
You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.
— Harry S Truman
My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.
— John F. Kennedy
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
— Theodore Roosevelt
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
— Pankaj Mishra
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
— William Howard Taft
When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue.
— Yoshihiko Noda
So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy.
— Roger Nash Baldwin
Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.
— Herbert Hoover
If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
— Nelson Mandela
But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times?
— Terry Savage
Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception.
— Peter Singer
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.
— Calvin Coolidge
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
— Henry Kissinger
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
— Louis D. Brandeis
Voting is a civic sacrament.
— Theodore Hesburgh
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
— Max Weber
When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
— William J. Clinton
There are many ways of encouraging people to make life better other than joining a political party. Politics with a small 'p' isn't just about darkened committee rooms, endless meetings - it is about giving people the right to make decisions about our lives.
— John Reid
I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life.
— Peter Singer
The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
— Pat Toomey
I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard.
— Jeremy Corbyn
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
— Robert Frost
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
— Marshall McLuhan
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.
— Jonathan Swift
I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
— Lord Byron
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
— Richard M. Nixon
Politics is the art of the possible.
— Otto von Bismarck
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
— Charles Bukowski
Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.
— John Shelton Reed
If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.
— Ethan Zuckerman
Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
— Beau Willimon
One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs.
— Ted Cruz
Let us put the normal divisions of politics aside. Let us come together as one country let us seize this historic moment to shift the balance of power from the corridors of Westminster to the streets and communities of Scotland.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Too often, we see wedge politics and petty rhetoric used to belittle adversaries and inflame partisan divisions.
— Larry Hogan
People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.
— Eddie Vedder
It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.
— Milo Yiannopoulos
In almost every country there are elements of opinion which would welcome such a conclusion because they wish to return to the politics of the balance of power, unrestricted and unregulated armaments, international anarchy, and preparation for war.
— Arthur Henderson
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield.
— Billy Hughes
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.
— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.
— Johnny Vegas
We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.
— Jeremy Corbyn
Social media is natural to me, and it's a very immediate way of saying something. It's the way politics are done these days. In modern politics, you can't ignore that even if you wanted to. I can't imagine doing politics without it.
— Nicola Sturgeon
My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics.
— Dennis Kucinich
Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
— Ross Perot
Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.
— Robert Byrne
Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.
— Ronald Reagan
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
— Jeff Rich
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
— Albert Einstein
One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
In football, as in politics, resilience pays off.
— George Osborne
I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.
— Shirley Chisholm
To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
— Vladimir Lenin
And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect.
— Seth Godin
If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.
— William Tecumseh Sherman
When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.
— Trevor Noah
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.
— Arnold H. Glasow
Vote for the man who promises least he'll be the least disappointing.
— Bernard Baruch
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
— Charles de Gaulle
The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves.
— Deng Xiaoping
The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
— Fidel Castro
A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
— Gary Hart
All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
— Groucho Marx
All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.
— Harry S Truman
Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
— Milton Friedman
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I discourage a cult of personality.
— Newt Gingrich
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
— Thomas Jefferson
Politics is applesauce.
— Will Rogers
A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.
— Woodrow Wilson
I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals.
— Steven Seagal
We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.
— Lin-Manuel Miranda
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.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.
— Jim Leach
The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.
— Molly Ivins
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I don't really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
— Marco Rubio
My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.
— Serj Tankian
Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
— Charles Dance
Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.
— Audrey Hepburn
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
— Ronald Reagan
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
— R. A. Butler
Politics makes me sick.
— William Howard Taft
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.
— David Lloyd George
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
— Stanley Baldwin
That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.
— John Wilkes
We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that's so striking is the whole area of politics.
— Donald Kagan
There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all, who've never been in a trade union, they've never been in a political party, they've never done anything, but they do feel a kind of urgency.
— Susan George
I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.
— Calvin Klein
Alan was always interested in politics in a major way. He actually believes that anarchy is a politically viable system, but I don't. I was always interested in putting forward the ideas that represented my viewpoint. I feel the same about anything I'm doing.
— David Lloyd
Politics makes strange bedfellows.
— Charles Dudley Warner
Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.
— Peggy Noonan
I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
— Pervez Musharraf
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.
— Barack Obama
The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.
— Charles Kennedy
I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.
— Jerry Lewis
You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
— Tom Peters
Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.
— Theresa May
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart.
— Thomas Friedman
I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.
— Ann Richards
You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.
— Rob McKenna
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.'
— Malcolm Turnbull
Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.
— Pope Francis
I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.
— Kid Rock
We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.
— Joan Baez
As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.
— Beck
What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike.
— Lincoln Steffens
The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.
— Bill Gates
Politics is a tough game. But would I change places with a trauma nurse in an emergency ward on a busy Saturday night? No way. There are lots of jobs in the world that are tougher than politics. And politicians and people who've done it need to remember that.
— Michael Ignatieff
They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
— Steve Largent
The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love.
— Myles Munroe
At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy.
— Bernie Sanders
At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars.
— Ellen Key
A lot of people feel that the realm of poetry and the realm of the lyric is personal feeling and should rise above politics, which, in fact, good poetry has never done.
— Claudia Rankine
The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.
— Edward Brooke
Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.
— Eric Schneiderman
I get all my U.S. politics from 'The Daily Show.'
— Margrethe Vestager
I keep telling these millennials it's all about them to get into politics and start making things happen. They don't care about whether or not someone is gay. They don't care to see contraception taken away or want to even discuss it. They're going forward, not backward.
— Donna Brazile
The similarities are limited but real. They amount to a shared disgust with politics as usual in America. The Tea Party focuses on the federal government Occupy Wall Street focuses on corporate America and its influence over the government. 
— George Packer
History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.
— Pawan Kalyan
Simply as an exercise in efficient politics, Obama '08 rewrote the textbook. His accomplishment was historic and one that transformed how race and politics intersect in our society. Obama is the leading edge of this change, but his success is merely the ripple in a pond that grows deeper every day.
— Gwen Ifill
Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.
— Gwen Ifill
The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed - everything.
— Andrew Lloyd Webber
Art removes boundaries and makes the world brighter. It is the common language for people all over the world. But politics are the opposite completely. Politicians, their very meaning is based on the lines they draw.
— Asghar Farhadi
Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.
— Andrew Breitbart
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.
— Ann Richards
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
— Walt Whitman
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
— Richard M. Nixon
Politics is the womb in which war develops.
— Carl von Clausewitz
All politics is local.
— Thomas P. O'Neill
That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
— Angela Merkel
It is not so much that women have a different point of view in politics as that they give a different emphasis. And this is vastly important, for politics is so largely a matter of emphasis.
— Crystal Eastman
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
— Stephen King
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
— Fareed Zakaria
When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution.
— John Lydon
To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character.
— Noel Gallagher
Politics has become infused with narcissism in America.
— John Oliver
My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.
— Lou Holtz
I didn't come into politics to have to deal with the issue of clandestine entry, illegal working, or an asylum system that allows a free run for right-wing bigots.
— David Blunkett
Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.
— Michael Ignatieff
People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids.
— John Schneider
The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.
— Gloria Steinem
A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist.
— Beau Willimon
There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.
— Brad Henry
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
— Mark Twain
I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
— Nigel Farage
It's interesting how people who were once fairly radical can become, later in life, kind of conservative, and not just in terms of politics - how, if you're an artist, you can start out being somewhat avant-garde and then end up doing landscapes.
— Richard Prince
I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.'
— Ralph Nader
Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.
— George Will
I am quite driven. I know what I think, and I know what I want to achieve, but I also hope that people who are asked to describe me would describe me as pretty down-to-earth, loyal, friendly. The more experience I have got in politics, I think the more I have allowed me to shine through.
— Nicola Sturgeon
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
— George Orwell
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
— Orson Welles
Being political is an integral part of being Iranian. Our lives are defined by politics.
— Shirin Neshat
There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
— Paul Wellstone
Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
— W. C. Fields
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
— Arthur Miller
Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.
— John F. Kennedy
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
In many cases, water stress is more about politics, economics, behaviour and governance than absolute water scarcity. Better planning is needed, to allocate water where societal need is greatest, and to allow trade-offs between alternative uses.
— Ian Goldin
The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.
— Clare Boothe Luce
My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.
— Liev Schreiber
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.
— Laura Ingraham
You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty.
— Edgar Mitchell
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
— Will Rogers
Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.
— Christopher Hitchens
The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.
— Herbert Hoover
I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.
— Thomas Jefferson
I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
— Barry Goldwater
Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
— Kate Millett
One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
— Margaret Thatcher
Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
— P. T. Barnum
There is so much partisan and tribal politics, from not just those seeking office but potential voters as well, that we never get real attempts at solutions to problems.
— Mark Cuban
More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
— Jeff Greenfield
To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate.
— David Frum
I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.
— Denise Mina
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties.
— Lincoln Steffens
Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.
— Mark McKinnon
I am not God. Nor am I Phantom. I am ready to accept any criticism. I have been in politics for decades. Each and every day, in several media, there is criticism of me.
— Mamata Banerjee
In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.
— Narendra Modi
That's politics. After six o'clock, we can be friends, but before six, it's politics.
— Thomas P. O'Neill
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
— Nelson Mandela
As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics.
— Artur Davis
Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.
— Zygmunt Bauman
Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.
— Charles de Gaulle
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President I'm beginning to believe it.
— Clarence Darrow
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
— Daniel J. Boorstin
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.
— Erich Fromm
Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.
— George Will
Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.
— Martin L. Gross
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
— Milton Friedman
There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.
— Annie Besant
Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
— B. R. Ambedkar
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
— Finley Peter Dunne
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.
— Hillary Clinton
I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.
— Dan Rather
If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.
— Jose Mujica
Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.
— Bill Moyers
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
— Joseph Sobran
Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.
— Bill Bradley
On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity.
— Mark Udall
But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.
— Imran Khan
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
— Paul Wellstone
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people.
— Ed Miliband
Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.
— Roger Stone
Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press.
— Jesse Jackson
I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.
— Malcolm Turnbull
I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.
— Ron Conway
Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that.
— Richard Lamm
A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer!
— Pope Francis
Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something!
— Pope Francis
Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
— Hunter S. Thompson
I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
— Gautam Adani
I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again.
— Dr. Seuss
I worry about the direction of the U.K. and U.K. politics and governance in the event of a Brexit.
— Nicola Sturgeon
Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.
— Pawan Kalyan
I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords.
— Linus Torvalds
Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics.
— Dario Fo
Human evolution relies on cooperation, which is why identity politics feels so backward.
— Greg Gutfeld
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
— Winston Churchill
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
— Aaron Levie
Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.
— Gore Vidal
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.
— Richard M. Nixon
There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
— Margaret Thatcher
Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
— Mikhail Bakunin
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.
— Tonya Harding
Boxing was not the sport that I thought is was due to all the politics.
— Gerry Cooney
When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.
— Nelson Mandela
Solidarity is the basis of my politics.
— Douglas Alexander
I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.
— Ariel Sharon
There is no gambling like politics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
A week is a long time in politics.
— Harold Wilson
Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.
— Lady Bird Johnson
Good government is good politics.
— Richard J. Daley
I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.
— Mikhail Gorbachev
The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.
— Neal Barnard
The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
— Robert Orben
Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.
— Russell Baker
It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.
— William O. Douglas
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.
— Lewis Black
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.
— Frank Luntz
When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.
— Charles de Secondat
In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.
— Elon Musk
Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night.
— Ted Cruz
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
— Eugene McCarthy
I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
— Theodore White
Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
— Margaret Fuller
From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
— Jane Austen
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
— Jim Hightower
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. 
— Saul Alinsky
Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.
— Zell Miller
I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.
— Maria Shriver
Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.
— Mark Warner
My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.
— Winfield Scott Hancock
What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.
— Frank Luntz
Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.
— David Trimble
I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.
— Chris Patten
I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.
— Tom Araya
I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends.
— Fred Frith
So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.
— Daniel Yergin
We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
— Paul Wellstone
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.
— John Gunther
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
— Vladimir Lenin
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.
— John F. Kennedy
Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.
— John Avlon
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.
— Marco Rubio
I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.
— Drew Brees
I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.
— Francois Hollande
I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either.
— Amitabh Bachchan
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
— Mark Rutte