954 private quotes tagged politics

“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

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“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.” — Honore de Balzac

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“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.” — Pericles

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“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.” — Colin Powell

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“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.” — Chuck Palahniuk

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“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.” — George Jean Nathan

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“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.” — John Adams

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“I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.” — LL Cool J

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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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“As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” — Angela Davis

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“There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.” — Thomas Huxley

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

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“The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.” — Reinhold Niebuhr

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“There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.” — John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.” — Stendhal

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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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“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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“I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.” — Lyndon B. Johnson

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“In Pakistan politics is hereditary.” — Imran Khan

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“The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.” — Christopher Hitchens

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“Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.” — Donald Rumsfeld

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“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.” — Jonathan Swift

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“First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.” — Nate Silver

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“In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.” — Charles Caleb Colton

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“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.” — John Quincy Adams

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