954 private quotes tagged politics

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

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“Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.” — George McGovern

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“Politics is just show business for ugly people.” — Jay Leno

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“It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.” — Robert Byrd

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“What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?” — Rahm Emanuel

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“My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.” — Eliza Dushku

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“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

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“Politics is a blood sport.” — Aneurin Bevan

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“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

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“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” — Paul Valery

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“I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics in life in spirituality in business just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.” — Zachary Levi

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“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.” — Alexis de Tocqueville

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“The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.” — John Stuart Mill

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“Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.” — P. J. O'Rourke

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

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“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.” — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.” — Groucho Marx

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“Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It's a very subjective experience. And I'm loyal to that experience.” — Robert Wyatt

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“I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.” — Harold MacMillan

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“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.” — Hedy Lamarr

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“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness.” — Anthony de Mello

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“Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.” — Edward Kennedy

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“Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.” — James MacGregor Burns

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“Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.” — Kinky Friedman

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