Quotes about Politics

"Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
-Albert Einstein

"It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
-Albert Einstein

"Man is by nature a political animal."
-Aristotle

"Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law."
-Sophocles

"Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame."
-Meg Greenfield

"A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life."
-Robert Byrne

"When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them."
-Franklin P. Adams

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

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
-Robert Louis Stevenson

"The Democratic Party is the party that opened its arms. We opened them to every nationality, every creed. We opened them to the immigrants. The Democratic Party is the party of the people."
-Richard J. Daley

"Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is."
-Margaret Cho

"It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill."
-Alfred Korzybski

"When the US sneezes, Canada says, 'gesundheit.'"
-Jules Carlysle

"In 1776, the Americans laid before Europe that noble Declaration, which ought to be hung up in the nursery of every king, and blazoned on the porch of every royal palace."
-Henry Thomas Buckle

"Modern politics today requires a mastery of television. I've never really warmed up to television and, in fairness to television, it's never warmed up to me."
-Walter F. Mondale

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

"Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it."
-Allan Bloom

"Were the radical democratic impulses of the American Revolution still driving US politics, it would be difficult to imagine corporatization of the kind witnessed today. But that impulse has weakened, and therelationship between the people and the corporation has reversed."
-Ben Manski

"The two pillars of 'political correctness' are:a) willful ignoranceb) a steadfast refusal to face the truth."
-George MacDonald

"Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public."
-George Mcgovern

"The newly passive George Bush has become something of an embarrassment."
-Tony Snow

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them."
-Paul Valery

"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong."
-Richard Armour

"Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks."
-Jimmy Wales

"What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If [voters] care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots."
-Newt Gingrich

"She (a woman politician) will be challenging a system that is still wedded to militarism and that saves billions of dollars a year by underpaying women and using them as a reserve cheap labor supply."
-Bella Abzug

"In the meantime, we should demand that no B.C. elections take place for the Senate until we are properly recognized as a full-fledged region of this country."
-Mark Marissen

"If the climate changes on global level, why can't people?"
-Loesje