Think Quotes

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

~ William Butler Yeats

I think it's pretentious to create art just for the sake of stroking the artists ego.

~ Lou Reed

When I make art, I think about its ability to connect with others, to bring them into the process.

~ Jim Hodges

First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

~ Nate Silver

The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.

~ Pat Toomey

It's not okay to lie about people and particularly not okay to hurl the worst imaginable names at people just because you think you might not like their politics.

~ Milo Yiannopoulos

The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.

~ Adlai E. Stevenson

I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.

~ Gary Hart

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

~ Audrey Hepburn

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

~ Pervez Musharraf

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

~ Nigel Farage

My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.

~ Liev Schreiber

Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

~ Ron Conway

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

~ Theodore White

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

~ Lyndon B. Johnson

I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics.

~ Chris Patten

I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others.

~ Drew Brees

Broadcasters or politicians or writers who think that they are respecting Struggle Street, the battlers, by dumbing things down into one-line sound bites are not respecting them, they are treating them with contempt. It's our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them.

~ Malcolm Turnbull

I think the record shows that as Speaker, I have taken the lead in cleaning up politics.

~ John Bercow

Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.

~ Lamar Alexander

In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative.

~ Ted Cruz

I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.

~ Nicolle Wallace

I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions.

~ Tom Brady

Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

~ Gary Johnson

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

~ Sydney Pollack

Humility is of central importance I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.

~ Cass Sunstein

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

~ Barbara Bush

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

~ Tony Blair

There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who can't accept they were rejected by the people, and some colleagues at Westminster who think nothing has changed.

~ Johann Lamont

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

~ Paul Wellstone

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

~ Norm Macdonald

In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.

~ C. Northcote Parkinson

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

~ Naguib Sawiris

I think Syria is in a particularly sensitive geopolitical position in terms of the politics of the Middle East.

~ Edward Luck

When you think back in history about producers and artists or writers who've had good synergy, a lot of times they date, or they're married, or there's a friendship and a kinship.

~ Solange Knowles

I think what 'The Hobbit' and Middle-earth deal in are quite universal and timeless themes of honour and love and friendship... so they're things that do resonate with people.

~ Martin Freeman

I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business.

~ Joan Rivers

The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.

~ Steven Pinker

I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.

~ Joanna Lumley