Famous Quotes & Sayings

W. C. Fields

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.

Adlai E. Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.

Bill Kurtis

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.

David Blunkett

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.

P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

Rory Bremner

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

Politics and more politics - that's how you work towards the building of agreements.

LeVar Burton

It's not about division. It's not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?

James Wolfensohn

Ownership is a sine qua non of sustainable development.

James Woods

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Calvin Coolidge

If you can get enough votes so that mine will make a majority, you can have it.

Al Gore

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Al Gore

Take it from me, every vote counts.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

George Soros

I would prefer not to be involved in party politics.

Ellen Willis

For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

Conor Oberst

I didn't used to think about politics much, or social issues. I was a teenager, writing about girls.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Standing, standing, standing - why do I have to stand all the time? That is the main characteristic of social Washington.

Aneurin Bevan

I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.

Andrew Sullivan

[Senator] Kerry [democrat MA] is emerging as the worst of all the viable Democratic candidates. He has the backbone of Clinton and the charm of Gore.

Ambrose Bierce

PANDEMONIUM, n. Literally, the Place of All the Demons. Most of them have escaped into politics and finance, and the place is now used as a lecture hall by the Audible Reformer.

Ambrose Bierce

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

Robert Reich

If we give up on politics, we're done for. Powerlessness is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

Alexander Pope

Jarring interests of themselves create the according music of a well-mixed state.

Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.

Dolly Parton

One is only poor, only if they choose to be.

Dick Francis

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Dick Morris

More and more, the Democrats are not merely inconsistent, wrong and/or misguided - they are the worst of all possible things you can be in Washington: irrelevant.

Dag Hammarskjold

Those who invoke history will certainly be heard by history. And they will have to accept its verdict.