c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers.
— Jennifer Granholm
Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.
— Hilary Duff
If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.
— Mark Hoppus
When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.
— William Hague
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.
— J. C. Watts
And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.
— Vince Cable
Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.
— Malcolm Turnbull
I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.
— Eliot Spitzer
The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.
— Andrew Sullivan
I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world.
— Shinzo Abe
In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
— Youssou N'Dour
I enjoy talking about politics a great deal.
— Seth Meyers
All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?
— Ken Livingstone
There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term.
— Johanna Siguroardottir
Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better.
— Atifete Jahjaga
I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.
— Vijay Mallya
The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system.
— Bob Spitz
My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way.
— Michael Steele
I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.
— John Bercow
I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.
— Rahul Gandhi
I know politics I know the media.
— Valerie Trierweiler
I keep trying to bring a more professional approach to New Zealand cricket. It's an uphill battle. I stay in the game because I find it intriguing and interesting. I'm not interested in coaching international sides. I don't mind short-term coaching. I don't want to get involved in the politics of teams.
— Glenn Turner
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
— James Surowiecki
Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.
— Rebecca Solnit
There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.
— Belle Boyd
As I got older I became a kind of sub cultural junkie, foraging around in music, street fashion and eventually art, politics and the freakier reaches of the Internet, hunting the next discovery, the next seam of underground gold.
— Hari Kunzru
Any criticism of Thatcher throws a dangerously absurd light on the entire machinery of British politics. Thatcher's name must be protected, not because of all the wrong that she had done, but because the people around her allowed her to do it.
— Morrissey
Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.
— Dan Aykroyd
All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics.
— Thomas Sowell
My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics.
— Benazir Bhutto
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives.
— Jamais Cascio
I don't know what's more embarrassing, these musicians and actors talking about politics in interviews or the media actually giving them credibility about it. It's absurd that a celebrity could speak out on the economy or politics with no more justification than a hit album or a movie.
— Paul Stanley
Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
— Jack Germond
My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.
— Patrick Schwarzenegger
I don't follow politics it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?
— Mario Balotelli
You can't talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you're just a political person, you're going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you're going to eventually be irrelevant.
— Robert Adams
The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network.
— Rush Limbaugh
People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'
— P. J. O'Rourke
Set politics and party aside: If it's not right for Michigan's small businesses and middle class, it's never been right with me.
— Gary Peters
The fact I have an education forms my lyrical style, I'm sure. I studied the social sciences, history, stuff like that. I have an interest in politics, which maybe works its way into the songs in small, subtle ways.
— Dean Wareham
The anchors of the Arab consensus have long been Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and both are now weakened forces in Arab politics and diplomacy.
— Elliott Abrams
In politics, a picture is worth a thousand words.
— Kathleen Troia McFarland
I'm not involved in politics, and I've never had any political role. I've never been in office. I've never taken any public administrative jobs.
— Isabel dos Santos
What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls.
— Michael Leunig
Economics has become as riveting as politics.
— Tina Brown
Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
— Lamar Alexander
When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignties are the only reliable source of political authority.
— Michael Ignatieff
At a purely practical level, history is important because it provides the basic skills needed for students to go further in sociology, politics, international relations and economics. History is also an ideal discipline for almost all careers in the law, the civil service and the private sector.
— Antony Beevor
If I'm lucky enough to be involved in the Academy Awards in the future, I'll just let people make up their decision without being involved in any politics. Because it shouldn't involve that.
— Peter Jackson
In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.
— Ted Cruz
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.
— Justin Trudeau
The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience.
— David Horsey
It is my determination that we, as a party, continue to make that fundamental restatement of liberal values in the politics of our country.
— Charles Kennedy
Politics means facing up to hard choices and facing down prejudice, short-termism, the easy, tempting court of knee-jerk public reaction.
— Charles Kennedy
There's no room for petty grievances in politics.
— Sergei Lavrov
I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.
— Nicolle Wallace
Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing.
— Mystikal
When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life.
— Roger Morris
Just by making a decision to stay out of politics, you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it, if you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.
— Joan Kirner
A lot of people are surprised when I talk so much about the present, but politics is just a crucial part of archaeology.
— Sarah Parcak
Politics for me started in violence.
— Marine Le Pen
The policy of the future cannot forever be determined by the politics of the past - or even the present.
— Pete Gallego
I'm willing to take a polygraph test to prove that I'm happy about Kahlon's return to politics. He's a good man, a man who cares. It's good to have people like that in politics, I have no problem with that.
— Yair Lapid
The middle ground in Congress has all but disappeared. The founders intended competing principles and interests to check excesses and create a balance in our politics that would benefit 'we the people.' Gerrymandered districts and a hyped-up fight-night media offer a partial explanation of why we seem to have neither checks nor balances.
— Donna Brazile
I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband's job.
— Melania Trump
You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.
— Blake Farenthold
I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt.
— Anne Wojcicki
I'm in no way suggesting that my opinion matters more than anyone else's, of course, but the only thing that bothers me is apathy. People that sit out of the process and complain about it, or pretend that politics isn't a part of their everyday lives.
— Olivia Wilde
The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.
— Kelsey Grammer
Michael Savage turns on a microphone and broadcasts his opinions to faithful followers who enjoy listening to his views on politics, social issues, and anything else that this colorful, provocative, entertaining guy comes up with. It doesn't matter which of his views I agree or disagree with.
— Mike Gallagher
Family politics are worse than world politics. That's all I can say. You don't get to choose your family you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.
— Michael Cimino
Forget politics and what their platforms were and everything, because you can take whoever you want to take, but the guy that I liked was Nixon... He was a smart man.
— Terry Bradshaw
Ethics, politics and psychology are all far more difficult to understand now that we know the depths to which human nature can sink.
— Ephraim Mirvis
A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we're unbiased in our reporting. That's one of the fundamentals of good journalism.
— Walter Cronkite
There's a difference between being politically incorrect and boorish. And we've seen that line crossed a dozen times by smart people who've mistaken politics for punditry.
— Greg Gutfeld
2017 may have been that year when identity politics hit a brick wall - and slumped limply on the pavement.
— Greg Gutfeld
True, the country is divided, but it's not Right and Left. It's Left and Not Left. It is because, for liberals, politics is personal and therefore extremely loud. For the rest of us, we prefer community over calamity.
— Greg Gutfeld
For Americans of the Greatest Generation that fought World War II and of the Silent Generation that came of age in the 1950s, the great moral and ideological cause was the Cold War. It gave purpose and clarity to our politics and foreign policy, and our lives.
— Pat Buchanan
In politics, as in physics, every reaction is met with an equal and opposite reaction.
— Thom Tillis
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear.
— Rutherford B. Hayes
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
— Edmund Burke
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball.
— Jack Buck
You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
— Arundhati Roy
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
— Imran Khan
People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.
— Whitfield Diffie
Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.
— P. J. O'Rourke
I don't know much about politics, and I don't want to know. That's why I rarely involve myself in politics.
— Elie Wiesel
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
— Alan Greenspan
I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn't. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.
— Angelina Jolie
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.
— Donella Meadows
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
— Abraham Lincoln
Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.
— Bill Gates
When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
— P. J. O'Rourke
The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
— P. J. O'Rourke
American politics is always an open competition.
— Hillary Clinton
Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
— Thomas Jefferson
The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.
— Mitt Romney
I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.
— Steven Wright
I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.
— Steven Wright
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
— George Bernard Shaw
Money is the mother's milk of everything, and it certainly is the mother's milk of politics.
— Rush Limbaugh
When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight.
— Marianne Williamson
You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
— Samuel Johnson
On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office.
— Ted Cruz
Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
— Ted Cruz
There's an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?
— Ted Cruz
Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
— Hunter S. Thompson
There might be some serious fun in politics.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Partisan rancour and party politics and ideology have got in the way of compromise - and compromise is the only thing that has ever made politics successful.
— Kevin Spacey
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.
— Will Rogers
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I am the granddaughter of an English woman. I love England and her people and, regardless of politics, consider you to be family... and always will.
— Nicola Sturgeon
In politics nothing is contemptible.
— Benjamin Disraeli
Finality is not the language of politics.
— Benjamin Disraeli
I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.
— Tom Brady
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
— Ambrose Bierce
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
— Ambrose Bierce
Politics - I still think it's a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It's not about the people: it's about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don't have the balls to say, 'I believe in this. I don't care what happens.'
— Jay-Z
I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.
— Molly Ivins
Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept.
— Stephen Kinzer
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
— Gary Johnson
Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.
— Robert Kennedy
Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
— Nancy Gibbs
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
— Emmanuel Macron
I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think.
— Donna Brazile
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
— George W. Bush
Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.
— Roger Ebert
Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
— James Surowiecki
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
— Sydney Pollack
This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
— Robert Reich
I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.
— Kid Rock
I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter.
— Sylvia Plath
I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible.
— Dan Quayle
Even before the missteps that I've had, I was never going to run for office. My family is adamantly opposed to it, and frankly, my politics don't necessarily work for the primaries of either of our parties.
— David Petraeus
Jesus is the politics of the new age He is about the establishment of a kingdom He is the one who has created a new time that gives us the time not only to care for the poor but to be poor. Jesus is the one who makes it possible to be nonviolent in a violent world.
— Stanley Hauerwas
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
— Honore de Balzac
If China's expansion into Africa and Russia's into Latin America and the former Soviet Union are any indication, Silicon Valley's ability to expand globally will be severely limited, if only because Beijing and Moscow have no qualms about blending politics and business.
— Evgeny Morozov
Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'
— John Ortberg
Humility is of central importance I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
— Cass Sunstein
Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.
— David Blunkett
As Assistant Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs, a constant concern for me is having our veterans dragged into partisan politics.
— Tammy Duckworth
You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
— David Mamet
Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.
— Grace Jones
If you're sort of interested in politics but sort of upset about contemporary politics, it's kind of wonderful to read about periods who were very eloquent and admirable - generally. People are articulating ideas you can sympathize with or understand both sides of. Or at least feel like one side is saying the right things.
— Whit Stillman
One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us.
— Condoleezza Rice
I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics.
— Condoleezza Rice
A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.
— Woodrow Wilson
When you read about the real history of where feminism comes from, it came from a very political point of view. I don't believe in bringing any politics to an idea like feminism. I love the idea that women should be celebrated, but I also believe men should be, too. We need both - yin and yang.
— Michelle Phan
Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
— Grover Norquist
While everyone else is thinking about economics and politics, executive salaries and the future of the euro, do the opposite, even if it's hard. Invest in the spirit.
— Jonathan Sacks
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
— Jonathan Sacks
The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.
— Lysander Spooner
'Air' is what the world looks like: An inconvenient mashup of human politics and divine geography. We leave bits and pieces of ourselves and our history in every place we encounter.
— G. Willow Wilson
I was in elective politics for 24 years. I've made four national races, two for President, two for Vice President. I have found there are other ways to serve, and I'm enjoying them.
— Al Gore
There's lots about politics I don't feel comfortable with. To talk about the politics of future ideas is impossible in soundbite form.
— Al Gore
It is the civilian part of the politics that is very, very bad, and we have to change that.
— Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.
— William Hague
I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.
— Jane Goodall
'Which is stronger, politics or love?' is like asking, 'Which is stronger, exhaling or inhaling?' They are two sides of the same thing.
— Mohsin Hamid
You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.
— Barbara Bush
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
— Barbara Bush
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
— Jimmy Fallon
The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.
— George Will
Promising something that seems popular at the time that you know you're never going to deliver - that's the kind of cynical politics that I don't want any part of.
— Justin Trudeau
'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.
— Orhan Pamuk
At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there's so many stories out there waiting to be told. It's just a matter of who's out there listening.
— Jose Antonio Vargas
There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.
— Heather Brooke
Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.
— Jim DeMint
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
— James Russell Lowell
There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
— Mario Cuomo
I don't compromise my principles for politics.
— Chris Christie
You know, I'm not comfortable with people whose politics are static in a democracy.
— Steve Earle
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
— Tony Blair
In no relationship at the top of any walk of life is it always easy, least of all in politics which matters so much and which is conducted in such a piercing spotlight.
— Tony Blair
I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.
— Tony Blair
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.
— Sun Yat-sen
My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.
— Sandra Day O'Connor
I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows.
— Ed Koch
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.
— Ed Koch
There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.
— Johann Lamont
I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
— Paul Wellstone
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.
— Paul Wellstone
All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics.
— August Wilson
I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.
— A. S. Byatt
Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney.
— Bob Iger
I never have been involved in politics.
— Rick Warren
In politics, readily dismissing inconvenient people can easily extend to dismissing inconvenient truths about them.
— Daniel Goleman
I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.
— Norm MacDonald
My passion for ideas is not matched with a passion for partisan or electoral politics.
— Jack Kemp
China's stock market is inextricably tied to politics.
— Kenneth Fisher
Everything is politics.
— Thomas Mann
In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
— Dick Gregory
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
— Henry Adams
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
— Henry Adams
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
— Henry Adams
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.
— Maya Lin
Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.
— Caroline Kennedy
Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.
— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.
— John Major
I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.
— Robert Harris
Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business.
— Brian Wilson
It's true that it's 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.
— Angela Davis
The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal.
— Mark Helprin
First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics.
— Karen DeCrow
When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.
— Imran Khan
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
— Daniel Webster
I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
— Peter Steele
I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.
— George Soros
Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.
— Freeman Dyson
'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.
— Douglas Brunt
Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
— Kit Harington
When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
— Imelda Marcos
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
— Malcolm Forbes
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
Politics ruins the character.
— Otto von Bismarck
Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.
— Manny Pacquiao
Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for.
— Bobby Seale
The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.
— Benazir Bhutto
For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.
— John W. Gardner
The world is governed by opinion.
— William Ellery Channing
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
— Jimmy Breslin
The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.
— H. Rap Brown
Businessmen should not put their finger in politics, because they tend to think only of their own self-interest. But I worry about the low morale in Italian industry and the lack of government initiatives to help the poor.
— Diego Della Valle
I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics.
— Mike Quigley
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
— Ralph Nader
The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
— Emmeline Pankhurst
Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving.
— Robertson Davies
Fortunately, we Argentines have decided to change. We believe politics needs to be led by public servants with a vocation to give and construct.
— Mauricio Macri
As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.
— Henry Giroux
We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.
— Kate Millett
I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.
— Kate Millett
So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?
— James Woods
There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'
— John Sayles
In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations.
— Armstrong Williams
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
— Stephen Leacock
I like Ronald Reagan, who didn't play crass politics, and he just articulated and delivered on broad themes that were needed. Free markets meant free markets. Deregulation. Lower tax rates. Strong national defense. And he was credible and believable.
— Dave Brat
The problem with modern politics is everybody is doing sound bite stuff. In my stump speech, I give 20 minutes on why I think we're off track. And I think people do really want to engage in a serious high-level discussion on how to get the country back on track because people care about their own country.
— Dave Brat
Party honesty is party expediency.
— Grover Cleveland
Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.
— Grover Cleveland
This is not the time for partisan bickering. This is not the time for politics as usual. Some of us are Democrats. Some of us are Republicans. Some of us are Independents. Above all, we must be Oklahomans first.
— Brad Henry
In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.
— Diane Abbott
But what I'm very interested in, whether it's writing, whether it's hosting a show, whether it's cooking food, I'm just into the discussions of identity, culture and the politics of culture.
— Eddie Huang
I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.
— Jacques Villeneuve
The public seldom forgive twice.
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
— Estelle Morris
Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.
— Honeysuckle Weeks
One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about.
— Thomas Mallon
I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics.
— Park Geun-hye
Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
— Wang Jianlin
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
— Brian Mulroney
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
— Peggy Noonan
To an intellectual who is adrift in politics, a theory is an aim; to a true politician his theory is a boundary.
— Francis Parker Yockey
In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others.
— Hassan Rouhani
I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.
— Gerhard Schroder
Although he's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics.
— George J. Mitchell
Even with politics, stuff comes around again. Woody Guthrie would recognize America today.
— Billy Bragg
From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.
— N. T. Wright
The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
— Bill Vaughan
I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.
— Jeane Kirkpatrick
The Tea Party represents stakeholders in the American system; people who were never involved in politics or thought they had to be, yet realized that political corruption and incompetence threatened not only their families, but the future of the nation itself.
— Tammy Bruce
I hope that in my books there's an undertone of politics, basic tenets of how we should live.
— Jasper Fforde
I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
— Corazon Aquino
Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
— Joseph Stiglitz
Politics is compromise.
— Paddy Ashdown
Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it's the only thing that makes any sense.
— Ben Nicholson
You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job.
— Thomas P. O'Neill
And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.
— Christy Romano
My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later.
— Jackie Speier
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.
— Leo Rosten
We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
— Patricia Hewitt
In politics, guts is all.
— Barbara Castle
It is very creditable when a woman gets into politics. She does this at the expense of responsibilities toward her home and family and should be lauded for this.
— Preneet Kaur
It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.
— Robert Byrd
I think sometimes women are not driven by the same, albeit, testosterone power thing that pushes men to get into politics.
— Morgan Fairchild
You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.
— Daniel Hannan
People don't get involved with local charities or politics because they think it's hard to make a difference and the problem feels overwhelming. But I believe that if all I've time for this year is to write one letter to the local council, it's still worth doing.
— Monica Ali
My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.
— Jorge M. Perez
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
— C. Northcote Parkinson
People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.
— Eleanor Clift
If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics.
— Eleanor Clift
Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
— Charles Edison
You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip.
— Johnny Isakson