Politics Quotes

By that I mean, I think that it is true that politics and political heroes have to satisfy our need to be greater than mortal in some way, and that's led them into creating illusions, sound bites, focus groups that tell you what to do.

Sydney Pollack

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

I've been worked over by the English press because there's an assumption that my politics are identical with my wife's, and for that matter that my wife's politics are identical with her politics of 20 years ago.

Stephen Rea

Does politics have to be injected into everything?

Sargent Shriver

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.

Shilpa Shetty

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Serj Tankian

My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization.

Serj Tankian

Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place.

Sherry Turkle

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

Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics.

Shirley Temple

I was really educating myself on the environment, but I didn't realize it was so connected to politics, connected to globalization.

Stuart Townsend

As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to t...

Steve Vai

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a sc...

Shailene Woodley

The fact is, presidential politics has become a game of inches.

Steven Weber

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 like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics.

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

But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.

Timothy Garton Ash

I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it.

Tom Araya

In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process.

Tammy Baldwin

In politics, the reaction to a controversy is very often more enlightening and important than the details of the allegations themselves.

Tammy Bruce