Famous Quotes: Politics

It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.
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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.
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'Yes' is a far more potent word than 'no' in American politics. By adopting the positions which animate the political agenda for the other side, one can disarm them and leave them sputtering with nothing to say.
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What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I've no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.
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Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class.
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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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I cry, sometimes, because I'm not 20 years younger, and I'm not healthy. But if I were, I would even sacrifice my writing to enter politics.
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
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African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
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By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
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I have got instincts that, I think, are very much in tune with people's very keen sense to see something different. I did not dream of being in politics since I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I was not involved in student politics, or not in that partisan way.
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I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.
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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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At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.
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The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
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There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.
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I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.
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I'm highly political. I spend an awful lot of time in the U.S. trying to influence decision-makers. But I don't feel in tune with British politics.
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Voting is a civic sacrament.
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