Famous Quotes About politics

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.