Politics Quotes

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

Politics is the art of the possible.

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully.

When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

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.

Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It's more like MMA.

Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.

Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.

In human life, economics precedes politics or culture.

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis.

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.

I don't like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.