Explore Quotes on Politics

I have been persecuted since I joined politics, and I have been living in persecution since then.

I'm not sure about English football to be honest with you. There's a lot of politics down there and I'm not sure it's just about your attributes on the park. If it was I'd still be down there.

Half of this business is politics. As real estate developers, it's our job to go in there and get beat up.

I don't think you should go into politics until you can stand on your own two feet economically, if possible, and you know enough about the world.

Politics feels, on what I have seen of it, like joining a tribe, and a lot of it is about unspoken ways of behaving.

The election before us will be the Austerlitz of American politics.

Politics in Scotland is far too important to be taken seriously.

British politics is more nuanced. Part of the problem with New Labour is that they are a moving target.

It's harder to take politics seriously, to understand the issues, than it is to drown it all in a sea of scorn. And while the world cries out for greater analysis and insight, we are distracted by bread and circuses, aka the 'Great British Bake-Off' and 'Tumble.' We should rediscover our tradition of satire. Of speaking truth unto power.

Mamata Banerjee was the reason for me joining politics.

I wanted to be an architect, fate took me to films. Now that I am into politics, I want to give my best here.

I have struggled in life and this has made me sensitive towards the needs of others. Politics gives you the opportunity to really do something.

I'm only a little interested in politics. But I'm always on top of the news, both in Brazil and abroad.

Politics, to Ariel Sharon, was like a Ferris wheel. But he didn't make do with just staying on the wheel; he did all he could to climb to the top and stay there.

What shaped my politics regarding war and peace was Martin Luther King Jr., the most extraordinary person that I ever heard. And when he began to talk about the issues of war and peace with such eloquence and such passion, I was drawn to that like a magnet.

People have wanted me to get involved in politics, you know, when I was coaching and I kept telling them, 'It's not for me to get up here and influence people.'

In 2010, Republicans took control of politics in Alabama by advocating for increased transparency and an end to government corruption, but instead of ending it, they have raised the level of corruption to the point that the stench of dishonesty fills the air, decadence drives policy, and bribery is the norm in Montgomery.

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

I don't want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.

Democracies must have equilibrium... and the entanglement of politics and information must be minimized.

Even if we don't know it or aren't aware of it, politics and philosophy are really what make our up lives.