Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer.
~ Anita Roddick
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
~ Kevin Costner
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.
~ Winston Churchill
After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
~ Billy Sunday
Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
~ Emma Goldman
I've done business with people I've met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
~ Terry Mcauliffe
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
~ Paul Valéry
Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.
~ John Thune
Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
~ Ulrich Beck
Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.
~ Hans Eysenck
Generation after generation, there is this never-ending, contemptuous, condescending attitude to the next generation or the next way of thinking: music, art, politics, whatever. And I have never been like that.
~ Jean-Michel Jarre
The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me - I've never paid much attention to it. I don't believe things can really change. It doesn't matter who's president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don't know. I guess that's not the right attitude to take.
~ Trent Reznor
The political parties who prefer lockdowns should end their politics that is based on negative attitude.
~ Shehbaz Sharif
One of the things that's unique about Louisiana politics is that people here have a much more realistic attitude about who their politicians are. They know they are human and not saints or Mormons or Eagle Scouts.
~ Mark Frost
Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.
~ Leon Panetta
I wasn't interested in politics. My attitude about it was, I can't make a difference no matter what I do. And the truth is, I don't even care enough to try.
~ Chris Jordan
My father got a trade union scholarship to Oxford; he lived and breathed politics; he was always watching current-affairs programmes. But I have a five-year-old child's attitude towards the news. Mainly, that it absolutely turns me off.
~ Jez Butterworth
In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
~ Barack Obama
I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden.
~ Shashi Tharoor
No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.
~ Jay-Z
Living gives you a better understanding of life. I would hope that my characters have become deeper and more rounded personalities. Wider travels have given me considerably greater insight into how cultural differences affect not only people, but politics and art.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.
~ Noam Chomsky
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
~ Paul Wellstone
Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.
~ David Blunkett
To my great disappointment, it appears that the politics of division are making a big comeback. Many Americans share my disappointment - especially those who were filled with great hope a few years ago, when then-Senator Obama announced his candidacy in Springfield, Illinois.
~ Paul Ryan
Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.
~ Naomi Klein
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians.
~ Chris Hadfield
At the end of the day, I think you're on high moral ground when you respect Montana and you respect the Constitution and you do your duty as a Senator. We need to put Americans' and Montanans' interests in the front seat and politics in the back.
~ Ryan Zinke
I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated.
~ Chris Benz
It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation.
~ Tina Brown
I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed.
~ David Talbot
My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics.
~ Lee Atwater
I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
~ P. J. O'rourke
Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.
~ Don Rickles
There's plenty of room for humor in politics, God knows, but it's a serious business.
~ Al Franken
I am a political human being. I have - that's one of my interests. I studied political science in college. I was actually going to get my Ph.D. in poli-sci. And a lot of my material from early on in my career dealt with politics, so I've always considered myself as somebody who enjoys political humor. So I'm not going to stop.
~ Maz Jobrani
Mixing humor and politics is something that works.
~ Bryan Cranston
Religious humor is not really my area, so I probably wouldn't do anything about that, or politics or something.
~ Chris Lilley
My dad has a dry, deadpan sense of humor, and my mom has an unexpected, wacky take on things. They really encouraged laughing at ourselves and the weirdness of situations that come up growing up in politics.
~ Kristin Gore
