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Quotes About Politics - Some Cynical, Some Hopeful, All On Point
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Radical politics tend to be simple minded.

--Israel Horovitz

There are a lot of grotesqueries in politics, not the least of which is the fund-raising side.

--Jack Kemp

In politics, sometimes the best measure of success is the reaction of your enemies.

--Jerry Falwell, Jr.

The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.

--John Jay Chapman

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

--Jeff Greenfield

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

--Jim Leach

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

--Jimmy Durante

Anybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.

--James Ellroy

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

--James Reston

Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.

--John Avlon

In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.

--John Morley

The art of politics is knowing what to do next.

--James P. Cannon

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

--Lester B. Pearson

If you lose, you can't lead. If you don't lead, you're irrelevant. Winning is what it's all about in politics.

--Lionel Sosa

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

--Lawrence Summers

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

--Lewis H. Lapham

I loathe and detest all this trivialisation of politics.

--Ken Livingstone

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

--Konrad Adenauer

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

--Kate Clinton

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

--Mark McKinnon

Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics.

--Mark McKinnon

Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.

--Maurice Saatchi

In life and in politics, it's helpful to try to perceive the other person through the most generous lens.

--Megyn Kelly

Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.

--Mike Huckabee

Politics are well past logic. It's entertainment.

--Martin Shkreli

Politics abhors a vacuum.

--Max Baucus

Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know?

--Miriam Defensor-Santiago

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

--Matthew Green

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

--Meg Greenfield

A life in politics is for people who know themselves and know where their own line is between loyalty and honesty.

--Nicolle Wallace

Each generation is responsible to make the future of the next.

--Nancy Pelosi

Politics is a highly tribal business.

--Nick Clegg

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

--Paul Ryan

Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.

--Paddy Ashdown

Politics is show business for ugly people.

--Paul Begala

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

--Paul Johnson

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics.

--Ron Fournier

Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn.

--Richard Stallman

Good government is good politics.

--Richard J. Daley

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

--Robert Reich

When it comes to politics, there's never a certain yes or no to any situation.

--Riteish Deshmukh

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

--Sargent Shriver

You help me, I'll help you. That's politics.

--Terry McAuliffe

A second opinion never hurts, not only in medicine, but also in politics.

--Sergei Lavrov

In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time.

--Sharad Pawar

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.

--Stone Gossard

Politics is a lot like acting. You have to be on all the time.

--Steven Ford

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

--Sydney Pollack

Politics is a contact sport.

--Steve Chabot

I hate politics. What they say and what they do is completely different.

--Tadashi Yanai

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

--Tammy Bruce

People are getting too far away from the real-world. Politics is just ridiculous, it's totally dysfunctional.

--Temple Grandin

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

--Vera Brittain

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

--William E. Simon

Politics and Religion are obsolete. The time has come for Science and Spirituality.

--Vinoba Bhave

In politics, there is only one crime that is unforgivable -- showing weakness.

--Yair Lapid

In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.

--Willie Brown

In politics, victory is never total.

--Donald Freed

Money is at the root of most that is wrong in American politics.

--Bob Beckel

Real politics starts with common people.

--Shesh Nath Vernwal

A nation that hates politics will not long survive as a democracy.

--E. J. Dionne

We think of politics in terms of power and who has the power. Politics is the end to which that power is put.

--Ngugi wa Thiong'o

No one you'd really like to see in public office has the bad taste to run.

--F. Paul Wilson

Politics is applesauce.

--Will Rogers

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

--Paul Valery

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

--Winston Churchill

Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

--Ronald Reagan

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

--Mark Twain

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.

--Mao Zedong

Everybody knows politics is a contact sport.

--Barack Obama

A drop of ink may make a million think.

--Lord Byron

Every election is determined by the people who show up.

--Larry J. Sabato

My esteem in this country has gone up substantially. It is very nice now when people wave at me, they use all their fingers.

--Jimmy Carter

This right to vote is the basic right without which all others are meaningless. It gives people, people as individuals, control over their own destinies.

--Lyndon B. Johnson

A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.

--Murray Kempton

Since the majority is always wrong, might we try one election day where all the losers take office?

--Robert Brault

Politics, noun. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

--Ambrose Bierce

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

--Ernest Benn

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.

--Oscar Ameringer

There are always too many Democratic congressmen, too many Republican congressmen, and never enough U.S. congressmen.

--Anonymous

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.

--Charlton Heston

An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

--Martin Luther King Jr.