Quotes of: Political-leaders Keyword

I never got into politics for it to be a career. It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.

J. C. Watts

I have always stayed out of politics, I don't believe it would be appropriate to talk about it.

Kirsty Coventry

I think everyone knows how much of a joint effort being in politics is. It requires all kinds of sacrifices and all kinds of support.

Kerry Healey

I truly believe that people like myself, who are in a position of entertainers in the limelight, should keep their mouth shut on politics.

Kid Rock

What's going on in the Senate is kind of a politics of escalation. We're getting sort of like the Mideast: pay back everybody when you're in charge.

Lindsey Graham

I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence.

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II

I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.

LL Cool J

Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?

Lewis H. Lapham

I don't like to talk about politics. If you say you're a Democrat, that'll turn off Republicans, and that's half of your fan base.

Lindsay Lohan

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

Marilyn Manson

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Mark Poster

I am involved with politics today because of the inspiration I received from Ronald Reagan.

Michael K. Simpson

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'

Malcolm Turnbull

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

Max Weber

It is part of politics to make things look better than they really are. What is a spin doctor but a serial euphemiser?

Nigel Rees

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country.

P. J. O'Rourke

Things move very slowly in politics. We seem to fight the same wars over and over again.

Pete du Pont

I could write songs about politics, but I'm conscious of not writing songs that sound the same as the ones I wrote 30 years ago.

Paul Weller

In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics.

Raul Castro

I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.

Rainer Werner Fassbinder