Politics Quotes

When I left politics in the early Eighties and started writing and recording, my idea was that I could have an influence further down into other generations. That Natives could come into the culture through arts and music.

The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.

I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful.

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

Commerce and politics do not go with royalty, full stop.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.

For even the most seasoned observers of American politics, Barack Obama is a phenomenon.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

I don't follow politics much.

People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.

When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness.

The composition of a common world would be the definition of politics.

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.