Famous Quotes About politics

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith.

While we remain a nation decisively shaped by religious faith, our politics and our culture are, in the main, less influenced by movements and arguments of an explicitly Christian character than they were even five years ago. I think this is a good thing - good for our political culture.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.

I know I'm not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I'm famous.