954 private quotes tagged politics

“Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.” — Caroline Kennedy

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“Politics is the art of the next best.” — Otto von Bismarck

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“Politics is the art of the possible.” — Otto von Bismarck

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“When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.” — Imran Khan

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“You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world.” — Eddie Vedder

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“I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.” — Nigel Farage

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“Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.” — Larry Flynt

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“Negative politics have always been around.” — Karl Rove

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“Politics is not about money.” — Paul Wellstone

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“Politics is not about power.” — Paul Wellstone

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“I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics.” — Francois Hollande

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“We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.” — Paul Wellstone

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“If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.” — Karl Rove

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“The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else.” — Karl Rove

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“Politics isn't about left versus right it's about top versus bottom.” — Jim Hightower

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“I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.” — Karl Rove

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“Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.” — Freeman Dyson

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“I didn't become leader to transform the Liberal Democrats into an enlarged form of the Electoral Reform Society. It's not the be all and end all for us. There are other very, very key ambitions in politics, not least social mobility and life chances, that I care about as passionately if not more.” — Nick Clegg

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“Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.” — Charles Edison

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“I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.” — Jeffrey Archer

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“I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.” — Tony Kushner

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“Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.” — E. L. Doctorow

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“But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions.” — Bjork

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“I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.” — Jesse Ventura

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“Look, there ought to be politics in politics.” — Karl Rove

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