954 private quotes tagged politics

“Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.” — Orson Welles

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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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“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

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

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“After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.” — Billy Sunday

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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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“I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.” — Oliver Stone

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“President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch.” — Lindsey Graham

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“Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.” — Colin Powell

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“And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office.” — Christy Romano

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“To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” — Charles de Gaulle

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“Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.” — Doug Coupland

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“Politics are not the task of a Christian.” — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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“When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.” — Herbert Hoover

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“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.” — Vladimir Lenin

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“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.” — Henry Adams

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“What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.” — Nick Clegg

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“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

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“From politics, it was an easy step to silence.” — Jane Austen

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“First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.” — John Avlon

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“If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.” — George W. Bush

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“University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.” — Henry A. Kissinger

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“One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making.” — Sarah Jessica Parker

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