Politics Quotes

I have always looked at the world through the prism of money to some degree. If you could follow the money, it explains a lot of things, in all sorts of aspects of the world. You can look at politics through the prism of money. You can look at art through the prism of money. You can look at sports through the prism of money.

~ Andrew Ross Sorkin

When it comes to matters of pro sports, politics or palate, disparate sides claim their party, team and cola to be superior.

~ Jen Lancaster

It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.

~ Jeff Fisher

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

~ Norm Macdonald

NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget.

~ Bill Nye

Space has always been confusing to politics.

~ P. J. O'rourke

You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I'm not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.

~ Dennis Kucinich

Once Canadians no longer believe that there is any good in politics, they no longer feel we can work together to solve the challenges we're facing, and that is my fundamental motivation: how do we work together as a country to solve the big challenges we're facing.

~ Justin Trudeau

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.

~ Cher

Man is by nature a political animal.

~ Aristotle

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

~ George Macdonald

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

~ Lyman Beecher

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

~ Jacob Bronowski

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.

~ Aristotle

I wasn't a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.

~ Iman

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this.

~ Bruno Latour

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

~ Robert J. Shiller

It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy.

~ Eliot Spitzer

Fracking is doable if there's full disclosure of all chemicals used. Secondly, science dictates the policy rather than politics. Third, there's collaboration between environmental groups and the natural gas industry.

~ Bill Richardson

The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.

~ Nancy Gibbs

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

~ Woodrow Wilson

Governments and scientists in India need to ensure that politics and religious ideology do not intrude into science. They belong to separate spheres, and if they are not kept separate, it is science in India and the country as a whole that will suffer.

~ Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.

~ A. N. Wilson

I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something.

~ Woodrow Wilson

I see myself as an old man and an unqualified teacher to the nation. I think being a teacher is probably the most important thing you can be in politics.

~ Tony Benn

Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.

~ Atal Bihari Vajpayee

Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations.

~ Ian Lustick

One thing in common between politics and marketing is that your greatest strength can often be your greatest weakness.

~ Joel Benenson

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

~ Khaleda Zia

When you're a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life's about, and you don't have much patience for the falsity of politics.

~ Heather Brooke

Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.

~ Tony Kushner

I'm constantly looking for ways to learn and elevate your craft, patience for yourself, and patience for this business. It's not a fair business. You may be great, but it may take years for someone to notice what you're capable of because of politics.

~ Aldis Hodge

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

~ John Major

I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.

~ Albert Camus

The Good Friday Agreement was an incredible breakthrough. But it's my view that the Hillsborough Agreement could see politics in the north come of age, and see us all move forwards on the basis of equality and partnership.

~ Martin Mcguinness

We are in the midst of an exciting canvass... I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.

~ Hiram Rhodes Revels

It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention.

~ Jane Fonda

I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.

~ Loretta Lynn

I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.

~ Bob Geldof

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

~ George Orwell