Politics Quotes

As for the role of France and Germany: French politics is often more self-confident then German politics due to the catastrophe in the first half of the last century. If Berlin and Paris don't agree, then it is difficult to make progress in Europe.

Wolfgang Schauble

Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.

Wolfgang Schauble

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

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

William Weld

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

Woodrow Wilson

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Woodrow Wilson

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

Yoshihiko Noda

The real reform Japan needs is decisive politics when we face issues that need to be decided.

Yoshihiko Noda

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

Youssou N'Dour

Literature has to serve as a moral control of politics.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

I have strong views about South African politics and I still don't feel I need to make public statements.

Zola Budd

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

Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone calling American troops occupiers rather than liberators.

Zell Miller

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

From politics to parenting, Christians have something to say.

Monica Johnson

What is it that unites, on the left of British politics, George Orwell, Billy Bragg, Gordon Brown and myself? An understanding that identity and a sense of belonging need to be linked to our commitment to nationhood and a modern form of patriotism.

David Blunkett

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics.

Michael Ignatieff

I'm not a political guy.

William H. McRaven