Politics Quotes

I have withdrawn from partisan politics. I am a constitutionalist who believes that the Constitution and the Bill of Rights must be central and the parties must be peripheral.

Identity politics is not politics at all, since it precisely negates the political as such by re-construing political positions in ethnic terms, subsuming 'ought' under 'is.'

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics.

In politics, you're like a toilet seat: you're up one day and down the next.

When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.

The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

Politics is applied biology.

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Bad politics make for bad morals.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

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

Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.