Famous Quotes & Sayings

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Robert Cray

Tell me a boat full of lawyers just sank.

William Safire

Gridlock is great. My motto is, 'Don't just do something. Stand there.'

Richard M. Nixon

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up.

Tupac Shakur

Strugglin' and striving, that's how the dough come.

Tupac Shakur

Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble.

Tupac Shakur

I'm on my knees begging, please come and save me.

Walter Cronkite

Everybody knows that there's a liberal, that there's a heavy liberal persuasion among correspondents.

Van Morrison

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

Sandra Day O'Connor

It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself.

Robin Morgan

Politics becomes a part of your life once you realize it has been all along.

Ronald Reagan

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

Ronald Reagan

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Ronald Reagan

An informed patriotism is what we want.

Will Rogers

Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury.

Will Rogers

We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?

Will Rogers

And, when the votes are counted, let everybody, including the candidates, get into a good humor as quick as they got into a bad one.

Will Rogers

Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out.

Zora Neale Hurston

The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.

Winston Churchill

Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state.

Winston Churchill

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form.

Winston Churchill

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Ronald Reagan

Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder

William H. Seward

Revolutions never go backward.

W. Somerset Maugham

Any society that values wealth above freedom will lose its freedom, and will ultimately lose its wealth as well

Our politics may be Republican, ... but that's just a temporary condition.

Michael Ignatieff

In politics, there's a kind of literal-mindedness. It's what you say, not what you mean, and you have to say only what you mean.

Lucy Powell

Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.

I'm conservative in my thought. I'm conservative in my theology. I'm conservative in my politics.

Michael Ignatieff

I had a lot of hubris going into politics, but I didn't think I was Pierre Trudeau.

In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.

Shilpa Shetty

I honestly have no interest in politics; I don't think I could ever get into politics.