Quotes about Politics
I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.
— Stephen Colbert
I've been in politics long enough to know that polls just go poof at times.
— George W. Bush
The political is personal.
— Gloria Steinem
Religion is often politics made sacred.
— Gloria Steinem
I have many, many old friends, and I always think that it's important, when you get into politics, to have friends you had before you were in politics and to understand what's on their minds.
— Hillary Clinton
National defense is one of the cardinal duties of a statesman, and that there is an obligation to perform such a duty absolutely irrespective of party politics or factional differences.
— John Adams
We're not disinterested in politics. It's just that politicians are disinteresting.
— John Lennon
In politics almost all of us are nerds, so that's just a given... but we're cool nerds.
— Jonathan Krohn
Before I got into politics, I wanted to be a missionary to people in the Middle East. I thought it would be better to speak with them in their own language.
— Jonathan Krohn
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of Congress?
— Will Rogers
The senator...was a smart man who had made his way in life with a single-mindedness oblivious to any of those stumbling blocks known as conscience, sworn oaths, justice, duty...
— Victor Hugo
Our democracy is but a name. We vote? What does that mean? It means we choose between two bodies of real, though not avowed, autocrats. We choose between Tweedledum and Tweedledee...
— Helen Keller