Politics Quotes

Politics affects everything, whether you pay attention to it or not. These quotes cover power, democracy, partisanship, idealism, corruption, and the exhausting but essential work of trying to govern millions of people who disagree about nearly everything.

“It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.'”

Malcolm Turnbull

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“In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.”

Nate Silver

“Abortion politics have distracted all sides from what is really essential: a major aid campaign to improve midwifery, prenatal care and emergency obstetric services in poor countries.”

Nicholas D. Kristof

“Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.”

Henry Adams

“You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.”

Bono

“One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system.”

Nick Clegg

“It's a good question, because a movie isn't good or bad based on its politics. It's usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.”

Roger Ebert

“Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.”

Pope John Paul II

“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”

Chuck Palahniuk

“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.”

Stephen King

“Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.”

Ronald Reagan

“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”

Honore de Balzac

“I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.”

LL Cool J

“You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky.”

Tony Blair

“It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.”

Mahatma Gandhi

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