Quotes of: Political-debate Keyword

I'm a comedian at the beginning and the end of the day. I'm not affiliated with any campaign, nor do I generally find politics interesting enough to plan to be involved.

Rob Delaney

I have always been interested in gender politics, so I'm not that keen on doing things that don't represent a truth about women.

Romola Garai

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Richard M. Nixon

The Republicans were not always insane. They might've had politics I didn't agree with, but they weren't always actually certifiable.

Salman Rushdie

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

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

Steven Wright

I was obsessed with politics in the '80s. I've recovered and I'm feeling much better now, thank you.

Steven Van Zandt

I don't feel, finally, that my politics are entirely determined by the fact that I'm a gay man.

Tony Kushner

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

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

Vladimir Lenin

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

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

If someone doesn't have a reason to not like you in America, they talk politics or religion. Then they get to hate you and we get to be enemies.

Wale

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.

William Howard Taft

Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.

Zygmunt Bauman

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

Zac Goldsmith

Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives.

Zadie Smith

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

Bella Abzug

The reality is that when three or four networks are at the table with three or four political parties, someone is going to be the victim.

Rick Mercer