954 private quotes tagged politics

“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“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

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“Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.” — Fritz Sauckel

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“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

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“To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works.” — Ai Weiwei

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“Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.” — Tony Kushner

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“It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.” — Khaleda Zia

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“I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.” — Cher

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“The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.” — John Major

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“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.” — Henry Rollins

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“Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.” — Erma Bombeck

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“And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.” — Tom Hanks

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“The movies were custard compared to politics.” — Nancy Reagan

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“Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.” — Ann Richards

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“In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.” — J. William Fulbright

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“At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.” — Sean Parker

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“I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.” — Dave Davies

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“The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.” — Terry Eagleton

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

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“I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.” — Henry Adams

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“The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.” — Theodore White

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“Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.” — Paul Wellstone

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“While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.” — Jon Meacham

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“A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.” — Carter Glass

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“The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.” — John Foster Dulles

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