Politics Quotes

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

People like to see honest persons. So I certainly will advise many young people who want to participate in politics, honesty is the best policy.

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

Barbecue is the third rail of North Carolina politics.

I can see quite clearly that if there was a single event that launched me on the road to ultimate involvement at the heart of South African politics, it was an assault on an African woman by her white employer in a kitchen in Fort Hare.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

I'm not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that's a dead end.

Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.

I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians... it's essential that one should keep an eye on one's own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion - how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.

I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.