Politics Quotes

The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.

I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way.

I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes.

There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life... Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.

I've traveled around the world, and what's so revealing is that, despite the differences in culture, politics, language, how people dress, there is a universal feeling that we all want the same thing. We deeply want to be respected and appreciated for our differences.

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

The so-called cancel culture on the Internet, the extremism that sometimes flares up on university campuses and newsrooms, and the exaggerated claims of those who practice identity politics are a political and cultural problem that will require real bravery to fight.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.