Quotes of: Eleanor-roosevelt Keyword

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Paddy Ashdown

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Pericles

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Paul Wellstone

When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too.

Shirley Temple

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

Thomas Jefferson

Like Indiana Jones, I don't like snakes - though that might lead some to ask why I'm in politics.

Theresa May

Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.

Tom Tancredo

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

Vince Cable

I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity.

Vijay Mallya

I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.

Zac Goldsmith

Iraq's search for weapons of mass destruction has proven impossible to deter and we should assume that it will continue for as long as Saddam is in power.

Al Gore

Sometimes I think the world is divided into those who have a comfortable relationship with power and those who have a naturally adversarial relationship with power.

Arundhati Roy

Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want to keep it for themselves.

Aaron Swartz

I spend all day figuring out how to beat the machine and knock the crap out of the political power structure.

Bella Abzug

I do not deal in any confidential information. What I do is provide advice.

Stockwell Day

I don't think the face of the Democratic Party is Nancy Pelosi.

Tom Vilsack

China is crippling our manufacturing economy and eliminating our jobs by illegally flooding our markets.

Virginia Foxx

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

Vernon A. Walters

Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.

Walter Annenberg

Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.

Walter Annenberg