954 private quotes tagged politics

“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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“I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.” — Gary Hart

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

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“I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.” — Gerhard Schroder

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“I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.” — William Gilbert

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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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“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.” — John Adams

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“Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.” — Dick Durbin

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“Politics is the enemy of the imagination.” — Ian Mcewan

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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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“I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.” — Sydney Pollack

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“We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.” — Martin L. Gross

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“We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.” — Stewart Udall

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“Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.” — Don Rickles

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“The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.” — Thomas Sowell

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“Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.” — Spiro T. Agnew

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“Mixing humor and politics is something that works.” — Bryan Cranston

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“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

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“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.” — Margaret Thatcher

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“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

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“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.” — Alexander Hamilton

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“Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.” — George Will

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“It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.” — Abba Eban

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