Famous Quotes & Sayings

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Our politics may be Republican, ... but that's just a temporary condition.

Henry Cabot Lodge

We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands.

Rory Stewart

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

Pat Toomey

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

Mark McKinnon

Politics at bottom is not all that complicated. It's all about timing.

Mark McKinnon

In politics, not all lies are all lies. And not all truths are complete.

Mark McKinnon

Unfortunately, in American politics there are no standards for shame.

Mickey Rourke

Winning an Oscar ain't about performance. There's a lot of politics involved.

James Madison

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

Garry Kasparov

It's true that in chess as in politics, fund-raising and glad-handing matter.

Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.

Jose Marti

To change masters is not to be free.

Narendra Modi

I have always believed in development over votebank politics.

Narendra Modi

We have not come into politics with 'Badle ki Bhavna' but we have come with 'Badlav Ki Bhavna'.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

Louis D. Brandeis

We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.

Mahatma Gandhi

The best politics is right action.

Napoleon Bonaparte

In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.

Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him.

Hilaire Belloc

The larger unit can borrow more easily in proportion than the smaller. It can especially tap bank credit more easily and bank credit is, to-day, the chief factor in economic activity of all kinds.

Hilaire Belloc

Protest against Industrial Capitalism from one aspect or another is universal: so was the protest against the condition of European religion at the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Patriotism corrupts history.

Emma Goldman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

Benito Mussolini

All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.

Benjamin Disraeli

Principle is ever my motto, no expediency.

Benjamin Disraeli

Information upon points of practical politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

Free trade is not a principle, it is an expedient.

Benjamin Disraeli

Finality is not the language of politics.

Benjamin Disraeli

In politics, nothing is contemptible.

Eleanor Clift

John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante

Practicing politics is like professional football. You have to be smart enough to understand the rules and stupid enough to think what you are doing is important.

Don't play politics with this issue. You've got to show the moxie, the backbone.