Politics Quotes · Page 332

“Politics is not leadership. It never has been. It never will be.”

— Richie Norton

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

— Hedy Lamarr

“Emotion is emotion, and politics is politics, and one has nothing to do with the other.”

— Seth Grahame-Smith

I hate politics, hate deals, and deal-making, hate meeting with attorneys and agents.

— Kathie Lee Gifford

“In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues…”

— George Orwell

Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.

— Michael O'Donoghue

Churches should not be directly involved in politics.

— John Leo

I've always been a very political person, I didn't want to become something I didn't believe in.

— Bob the Drag Queen

I don't see democracy getting better. I see democracy diminishing. More rules, more legislation. Eventually governments will see everything.

— Taki Theodoracopulos

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should…

— George Washington

I've never been in politics before, but even in the brief time that I've been running for governor, I've been exposed to…

— Eric Greitens

The basic idea of governance, as I see it, is to hold the society together so that it can develop and march…

— Lal Bahadur Shastri

The President is Bush, the Vice President's a Dick, so a whole lot of fucking is what we gon' get. They don't…

— Talib Kweli

I can see television much more easily than I can see features, because the economy and politics of making big, big features…

— William Gibson

Politicians should not get involved in the detail of clinical criteria and shouldn't be arguing with professors and consultants over whether there…

— Leo Varadkar

The thing that distinguishes America is that it is a republican form of government - anything that is not outlawed or specifically…

— Bernard von NotHaus

The people in my family couldn't adjust to the political atmosphere around me. I didn't want my political ambitions to cause stress…

— Govinda

Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the…

— Bob Beauprez

ON WATERGATE: The reluctant cover up of a third rate burglary which President Nixon new nothing about until after the debacle brought…

— John Lars Zwerenz

“The chance that Don Jr. did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero,” said…

— Michael Wolff

You've got different governments and manufacturers saying, 'Oh, we'll be electric and autonomous by 2030 or whatever.' In my view Formula One…

— Christian Horner

It is not the ownership of the instruments of production which it is important for the State to assume. If the State…

— John Maynard Keynes

Sarah Palin kept talking and talking, and the more she talks, the less compelling she can be. People say, "She's a very…

— Barry Levinson

Concentrate your energy, thought and capital exclusively upon the business in which you are engaged... 'Don't put all your eggs in one…

— Andrew Carnegie

As long as the wrong people hold power, how can the right political climate even arise?

— William A. Dembski

As a musician to hang out with a politician, I think it's disgusting.

— Tricky

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

— Edwin Meese

If a society is to be free, its government has to be controlled.

— Ayn Rand

An honest politician is either a hypocrite - or he is doomed.

— Taylor Caldwell

Ignorant of the arts of luxury, the primitive Romans had improved the science of government and war.

— Edward Gibbon

Democracy literally means the power of people. Democracy is not about politics, it is about the people.

— Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj

This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle.

— George F Will

It would be really hard to get serious about anything political today unless it was a joke.

— Carla Bley

If you would know the political and moral condition of a people, ask as to the position of its women.

— Aime Martin

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Equality is a disorganizing concept in so far as human relations mean order.

— Richard Weaver

Our political divides have become our personal divides.

— Ben H. Winters

Liberty is a political firewall that limits the damage government can do to the individual.

— James Bovard

Positions on politics and religion are labels. Inside I'm still me, just older and tired.

— Frank Schaeffer

My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.

— Carl Andre