Politics Quotes - page 2

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. (Tony Blair)
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. View quote
Mahatma Gandhi
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain. View quote
John Adams
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. View quote
Frank Zappa
Politics: distrust all parties but consider capitalism must go. View quote
Louis MacNeice
War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. View quote
Colin Powell
Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. View quote
Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. View quote
Edmund Burke
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. (Alexander Hamilton)
I think that one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, and loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around the camp fire, but are lousy in politics. View quote
Newt Gingrich
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. View quote
Paul Valéry
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. View quote
Hubert Humphrey
Politics is the Art of Controlling Your Enviroment. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
The glossary of politics is so full of euphemistic words and phrases - as in the nature of things it must be - that one would suppose politicians must sometimes strain their wits to coin them. View quote
Albert Jay Nock
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. View quote
Mary McCarthy
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
For in politics, what can laws do without morals? View quote
Benjamin Franklin
When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. (Herbert Hoover)
Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics. View quote
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. View quote
William Howard Taft
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men. View quote
Reinhold Niebuhr
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. View quote
Jane Austen