Quotes about Politics, page 2

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.

Quote by Bruce Babbitt about politics

It's much easier to wear a Chairman Mao button and shake your fists in the air and all that, then to actually read the Communist manifesto and things like that and actually become involved in politics.

Quote by Lester Bangs about politics

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

Quote by Dean Acheson about politics

Negotiation in the classic diplomatic sense assumes parties more anxious to agree than to disagree.

Quote by Dean Acheson about politics

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull. This is not always easy to achieve.

Quote by Dean Acheson about politics

Those moments right before we invaded, I wish that I could have done something. But professionally, I don't go in that direction of choosing things based on personal politics.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about politics

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Quote by Henry B. Adams about politics

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Quote by John Adams about politics

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

Quote by John Adams about politics

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Quote by John Adams about politics

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

Quote by Joseph Addison about politics

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Quote by Honoré de Balzac about politics

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

Quote by Warren Beatty about politics

Characteristics of a popular politician: a horrible voice, bad breeding, and a vulgar manner.

Quote by Aristophanes about politics

Under every stone lurks a politician.

Quote by Aristophanes about politics

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state.

Quote by Aristotel about politics

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about politics

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about politics