Politics Quotes

I think politics is extremely funny in and of itself.

~ Jesse Watters

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

~ Ian Mcewan

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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

~ Hillary Clinton

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

~ Konrad Adenauer

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.

~ Mao Zedong

Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.

~ E. L. Doctorow

Loyalty and friendship trumps politics for me.

~ Robert Kraft

It's the sad thing about entertainment: it's not always about who is the best. Jake The Snake had a horrible time playing politics. I never had a belt; didn't need one. They tried to put me against Hogan twice, but when the people chanted for me, when they chanted for the DDT, that was the end of that. They couldn't ruin their marketing.

~ Jake Roberts

The 2012 presidential campaign's turn away from the classic, straight-up, American election - where the candidate who gets the most votes nationwide wins - is another sad reminder of the extreme political polarization distorting today's politics. No one talks about a 50-state strategy for winning the presidency these days.

~ Juan Williams

I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics.

~ Mitt Romney

Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.

~ Zbigniew Brzeziński

In politics you learn to always smile.

~ Eliot Spitzer

Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam, and you will find that women have often taken leading places - on the throne, in the battle-field, in politics, in literature, poetry, etc.

~ Annie Besant

The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it's nostalgia.

~ Pete Hamill

I've been in government and politics my entire career, and while I try to keep a level head and a reasonable tone in my commentary, even I can lose my head sometimes and let anger bubble over and burst out. It feels gross, looks ugly, and leaves a lasting mark.

~ Dana Perino

When I first started, my songs were the politics of anger. As I got older and hopefully wiser, I wanted to be part of the politics of answers.

~ Michael Franti

It's that evil twin part of me that always comes out at the absolute wrong political moment, like a demon possessing my soul; it exhibits itself as an arrogance or disdain or obnoxiousness or meanness or anger or pettiness - all traits that are lethal in politics.

~ Peter Navarro

I personally do not believe in politics, hatred, or anger in my musical composition.

~ Horace Silver

With the mining sites, I found a subject matter that carried forth my fascination with the undoing of the landscape, in terms of both its formal beauty and its environmental politics.

~ David Maisel

All too often, the conversation about appropriate and balanced environmental stewardship gets caught up in partisan politics. Yet, this conversation is key to the preservation of our great country for generations to come, as important as ensuring we have fiscally responsible policies to secure our future.

~ Chris Gibson

The environment has fallen to the wayside in politics.

~ Craig Venter

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

~ Pierce Brosnan

When I visited the Water Institute's Baton Rouge offices overlooking the Mississippi River, I couldn't find a drop of the charged politics that drives so many environmental conversations in Washington.

~ Nina Easton

Politics colours everything, and anyone who wants change is necessarily political. As an environmental campaigner more or less since I left school in the early '90s, I have always been involved in lobbying, campaigning and pushing for changes.

~ Zac Goldsmith

Well, I think the great tragedy in American politics is what is legal, not what is illegal.

~ Jack Abramoff