Politics Quotes

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.

~ Pope Francis

Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'

~ Prince

Kidnapping is always a threat in this life of reporting on men hurting one another because of religion and politics.

~ Richard Engel

In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.

~ Nathan Myhrvold

The only real shaming I've ever experienced has been from other gay people when I reveal my politics or my religion.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

We have this idea in our minds that there's this separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics - not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course there isn't.

~ Stephen Colbert

I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

~ Mohsin Hamid

Religion and politics hit nerves. There's a lot of anger about a lot of things. It's not easily resolved. I guess that's what wars are about. Wars are about prejudice and fear. Hit first before you get hit. Believe me, I know.

~ Mel Gibson

It's very difficult to talk about religion in Iran because religion has gotten so mixed up with politics.

~ Asghar Farhadi

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

~ Van Morrison

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

~ Jerry Falwell

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

~ Joyce Cary

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.

~ August Bebel

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

~ John F. Kennedy

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

~ Bill Maher

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

~ Shirley Chisholm

As a young woman in politics, with few women around, you start to subconsciously behave like men in politics. That comes across as quite hard, tough and humorless, but you're trying to be taken seriously.

~ Nicola Sturgeon

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

~ Clare Boothe Luce

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.

~ Hedy Lamarr

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

~ Barry Goldwater

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

~ Kin Hubbard

A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism.

~ Raquel Cassidy

One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state.

~ Noam Chomsky

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

~ H. G. Wells

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

~ Donald Trump

We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.

~ Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.

~ Margaret Thatcher

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.

~ Franklin D. Roosevelt

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.

~ Hannah Arendt

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

~ Arthur Koestler

Both the Obama and Romney campaigns said they pulled all their political ads today in observance of the September 11th anniversary. But politics wasn't very far offstage. The Obama campaign sees foreign policy as an advantage this year.

~ Mara Liasson

Merkel is an amazing woman, very experienced in international politics.

~ Ehud Olmert

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

~ Cal Thomas

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

~ Thurgood Marshall

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

~ Max Weber

There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view - you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values - may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.

~ Condoleezza Rice

I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

~ Maggie Gallagher