Politics Quotes

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

Heather Brooke

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.

Honore de Balzac

The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other.

H. Rap Brown

What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration...

Ha-Joon Chang

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country, in our politics, that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party, and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United State...

Herman Cain

If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

Hillary Clinton

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

Hillary Clinton

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

Hillary Clinton

I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

Hillary Clinton

There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

Hillary Clinton

American politics is always an open competition.

Hillary Clinton

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

Hillary Clinton

To let politics become a cesspool, and then avoid it because it is a cesspool, is a double crime.

Howard Crosby

About 25 years ago, I started out as a reporter covering politics. And that sort of just evolved into organized crime, because organized crime and politics were the same thing in Boston.

Howie Carr

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Hilary Duff

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

I just don't like politics. My rule is if I can put a spotlight on something, I'll do that.

Harvey Fierstein

I'd just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I'd just as soon stick to what we're here for, the picture.

Henry Fonda

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.

Howard Fineman

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Helen Gahagan

As politics is disconnected from its ethical and material moorings, it becomes easier to punish and imprison young people than to educate them.

Henry Giroux