Politics Quotes

Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.

Max Cannon

Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about.

Max Cannon

Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.

Michel De Certeau

The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every electi...

Matt Damon

In politics there are so many holes, so many contradictions, you don't know what's happening.

Matt Dillon

The Obamas, especially Michelle, have radiated the sense that Americans do not appreciate what they sacrifice by living in a gilded cage. They've forgotten Rule No. 1 of politics: No one sheds tears for anyone lucky enough to live at the White House.

Maureen Dowd

In politics, there are no friends.

Marian Wright Edelman

I'm used to politics at an international level: people put together an argument and, even if you vehemently disagree with them, well, you can recognise it's an argument and respond.

Mohamed ElBaradei

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

Milton Friedman

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.

Maggie Gallagher

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Mahatma Gandhi

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

My father's politics and ideas were, to me, unforgivable. He was a Jewish convert who became very anti-Semitic, and I didn't find the anti-Semitism forgivable.

Mary Gordon

I don't have to be in politics.

Matt Gonzalez

When I got into politics, it was a shock. People promise all sorts of things and then never deliver.

Matt Gonzalez

This idea that once you get into politics... you are now signed up for lifelong duty being in elective office, makes a fundamental error - and that is believing that the only way you can hold progressive views and implement them is in elective office...

Matt Gonzalez

They politics like ours profess, the greater prey upon the less.

Matthew Green

If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide.

Meg Greenfield

Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.

Meg Greenfield

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

Mikhail Gorbachev

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

Mark Hoppus