Famous Quotes: Politics

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
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Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday conversation. When evoked in national politics, it's usually accompanied by the shrill whine of a descending culture-war mortar.
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I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
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Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.
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I wanted the feel in these books to be like an epic fantasy, with kings, queens, dukes and court politics, but of course like what I was explaining before, about making the science make sense, you have to make the politics make sense, too.
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The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics.
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Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
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People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.
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People go into politics because they want the affirmation, and they want the applause.
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Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.
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Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.
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Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future.
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Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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When I was a kid, Eisenhower had been President forever, and all of a sudden, everything in the world was all about Jack Kennedy. I was 12, interested in politics; my father was from Massachusetts, had an accent like Kennedy.
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Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules.
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You should never ask actors about politics.
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Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!
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