Famous Quotes & Sayings

Herman Cain

I'm not a professional politician. I'm a professional problem solver...

Herbert Spencer

The question of questions for the politicians should ever be-What type of social structure am I tending to produce? But this is a question he never entertains.

Henry David Thoreau

Politics is but a narrow field.

Henry David Thoreau

What is called politics is comparatively something so superficial and inhuman, that practically I have never fairly recognized that it concerns me at all.

Ernst Haeckel

Politics is applied biology.

Flannery O'Connor

Policy and politics generally go contrary to principle.

Gore Vidal

We are the United States of Amnesia, we learn nothing because we remember nothing.

James Brown

Everybody over there, get on up. Everybody out there, get into it. Everybody right there, get involved.

Jim Hightower

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Jesse Jackson

My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected and the despised.

Jeff Flake

Certainly the policy is right and good politics usually follow good policy.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

Chris Rock

Oprah is so rich, I saw John Kerry proposing to her.

George Washington

It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it.

George Washington

The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality.

Frank Zappa

The NRA, with the fingers on the triggers when they kneel and pray.

George W. Bush

If the terriers and bariffs are torn down, this economy will grow.

George Stephanopoulos

Well, I did say we'll put it out and we'll put it out when we can. But I don't know what we can put out or when we can put it out.

Francis Bacon

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Hugh Sidey

We love the blather and boast, the charge and counter-charge of campaigning. Governing is a tougher deal.

Hannah Arendt

entirely new concepts are very rare in politics ...

Guy de Maupassant

We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle.

George Bernard Shaw

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

Max Cannon

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Phyllis George

That's when the seed was planted. I didn't know a lot about the politics of putting a woman on the air. I just saw one.

Alex Cox

That's my curse, I see the politics within these things and so I don't say yes to them.

Rich Galen

What is so frustrating is that this is a problem of their own making. I have no idea why they didn't see the politics of this.

Justina Machado

I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics.

It sounds like there's a lot of politics at play here.

Mystikal

Every body and thing has politics involved. Every. Single. Thing.

Daniel Barenboim

The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.