Politics Quotes

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint of heart, and if you enter the arena , you should expect to get roughed up. Moreover, Democracy in a nation of more than 300 million people is inherently difficult.

Before we get too depressed about the state of our politics, let's remember our history. The great debates of the past, all stirred great passions. They all made somebody angry, and at least once led to a terrible war. What is amazing, is that despite all the conflict, our experiment in democracy has worked better than any form of government on earth.

If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.

Politics is applesauce.

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

The problem with political jokes is they get elected.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.