Tagged: Politics

You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. -Johnny Isakson

Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls. -Gary Bauer

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

I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. -Nate Silver

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. -Kinky Friedman

Most people get their politics, obviously, from TV shows about senators or movies about them or... all the day-to-day press and the talk shows. -Judd Gregg

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. -Woodrow Wilson

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. -Herbert Hoover

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. -Harry S. Truman

A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics. -Ron Fournier

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. -Aristotle

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

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. -Edmund Burke

Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible. -Dee Dee Myers

I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. -Molly Ivins

In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. -Iain Banks

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. -Jane Austen

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. -Alexander Hamilton

Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work. -Caroline Kennedy

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.' -John Sayles

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a…