954 private quotes tagged politics

“You cannot mix sports with politics.”— Jackie Chan

“When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.”— William J. Clinton

“I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.”— Calvin Klein

“Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.”— Charles Krauthammer

“Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen.”— Imelda Marcos

“In general people feel more relaxed about participating in politics. They aren't frightened as they used to be.”— Aung San Suu Kyi

“I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.”— T. D. Jakes

“I don't want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.”— Haruki Murakami

“This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys.”— Thomas Frank

“I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.”— J. C. Watts

“I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy.”— Kid Rock

“We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life.”— Bob Ehrlich

“He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.”— Henry Adams

“Amnesty is a terrible policy, and it's terrible politics. It's a terrible policy because you are rewarding people for breaking the law.”— Tom Tancredo

“What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.”— Nick Clegg

“Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.”— Arlen Specter

“Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.'”— Prince

“It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.”— Jon Meacham

“The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.”— Jonathan Sacks

“Telling the truth, and confronting the challenge, is what politics is about.”— Johann Lamont

“I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already.”— Jerry Lewis

“I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.”— Sachin Tendulkar

“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”— John Kenneth Galbraith

“The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.”— Christopher Lasch

“Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.”— John Quincy Adams