Politics Quotes (4933 Quotes)

The blame for the war is Saddam Hussein's, ... Inside Politics.

If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.

Architecture is politics.

The Olympic Truce will not be eternal. After the games, bad habits will return. But this village is a perfect example of what the truce exemplifies. Here, athletes of different religions, political systems, races and languages live peacefully together.

Don't you ever think that racism that has poisoned the bloodstream of religion, education, jurisprudence, politics, culture -- that it is not existent in FEMA and the Red Cross

Harvard is first and foremost a university and not a consulting operation, and our job here is to teach and to research and to create knowledge on Asia in conjunction and in cooperation with scholars as well as with political, intellectual, and cultural leaders in Asia.

The political core of any movement for freedom in the society has to have the political imperative to protect free speech.

Apologists for the drug trade often argue that the upper classes and the political establishment in Bogota would never have opposed the drug trade if it had not enabled former punks and small-time hoods to buy property in the posh neighborhoods, and they may be right.

He's a good politician. But I'll still vote for him over the opposition.

If the bare bones of the plot make To Live sound dry or intensely political, in fact it's utterly engrossing. That's because it's so beautifully made, ... Unlike Zhang's later films, it's not at all flashy. He has a very economical way of telling his story. There's very little wasted space in that film, nothing indulgent. It's gripping from start to finish, and all done with such grace, as we watch two ordinary people just trying to get by.

They transcend the swamp of New York politics. Because of their celebrity, Clinton and Giuliani are able to rise above the mire that soils so many other New York politicians.

He (Sardar Patel) had said that you give reservation to Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, but never reserve posts for minorities. We also say the same thing, but this government (the United Progressive Alliance) is set to appease minorities for vote bank politics.

There will be more reform proposals coming down the pipe, notably on financial rules, oversight, internal justice, budgeting, those kinds of issues. We hope the political divisions we've seen in the last week in the fifth can be overcome and that member states can focus on the importance of reforming and creating a better United Nations.

I think someone who takes the presidency must not take it to learn. (There is) a crisis of leadership and it needs someone who understands already the depth of human suffering and the difficulties we are confronted with. There's no time for learning.

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

I love politics. This just made me want to go into politics even more.

I'm not a politician. I only want to help relieve the suffering in communities, and I want to help people see their community in each other.

should be stripped of their non-profit status, and television networks who work with them should realize they are working with a political organization, not an educational organization.

The failure of work manifests itself in many ways diminished self-esteem, toil without dignity, long hours on the job, poor pay, and the growing financial disparity between rank and file (the typical CEO in the 1990s made 150 times the average worker's pay), petty bureaucratic politics, the purposelessness of many of our tasks, the gnawing lack of creativity, fulfillment, and genuine sense of involvement on the job, the absence of autonomy, the increasing sense of isolation, excessive competitiveness, ineffective and inept leadership, physical and psychological enervation, feeling trapped in a system that primarily promotes products and profits over people, and the absence of the simple expectation of reward and recognition for a job well done.

The money chase in politics is out of control at this point.

What we are witnessing is a political meltdown. This is a serious blow for the government, and it's not clear it can get though this unscathed.

From the point of view of human history, the way in which the Thirteen States became independent is of far less importance than the fact that they did become independent. And with the establishment of their independence came a new sort of community into the world. It was like something coming out of an egg. It was a western European civilization that had broken free from the last traces of Empire and Christendom it had not a vestige of monarchy left and no state religion.... It was in these respects such a clean start in political organization as the world had not seen before.... The new community had in fact gone right down to the bare and stripped fundamentals of human association, and it was building up a new sort of society and a new sort of state upon those foundations.

Eight million people will vote next Tuesday, ... You have to understand why I am in this, I am in this to change the political process.

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Cindy Sheehan is a clown. There is no real antiwar movement. No serious politician, with anything to do with anything, would show his face at an antiwar rally.

Gas prices are clearly reaching a level where it's a political problem for people, ... unless you empty the reserve, it is a very temporary expedient. It does not affect the basic supply-and-demand problem.

Political pressure on the Bank of Japan will linger.

He was unique in that he was good in politics and good at public policy. He was good at both.

There are quotes from their own scientists who think it's kind of risky. We think it's more of a political decision than a scientific decision.

Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.

I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me.

It represents a misreading of the nature of the problem. When we make these forces stronger, we make the underlying problem worse, not better. We're throwing gas on the political fire.

If we simply measure his performance by these two agenda, I think the presidency has been a flop.