P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.”
Source: Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
“Politics is for the moment and equation is for eternity.”
Source: The Quotable Einstein
“Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.”
“Politics is for the present, while our equations are for eternity.”
Source: Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein
“Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.”
“Politics is gut; commercials are gut.”
“Politics is history in the making.”
Source: Hitler's Second Book: The Unpublished Sequel to Mein Kampf
“Politics is history in the present tense.”
“Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.”
Source: Do it; scenarios of the revolution
“Politics is how you think about life itself.”
“Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.”
Source: Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001
“Politics is in my blood. I'd love to be involved in 2008, maybe even '06.”
“Politics is its own world. It is a court and if the king's eye lights on you, you are a powerful figure. If the king's eye wanders elsewhere, you are out, whatever your title.”
“Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.”
Source: There he goes again: Ronald Reagan's reign of error
“Politics is just love, sex, food, clothes, money, and correct society in a different form.”
Source: A Woman's View: How Hollywood Spoke to Women, 1930-1960
“Politics is just show business for ugly people.”
“Politics is largely a matter of heart.”
“Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth”
Source: Bertrand Russell's Best
“Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be.”
“Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.”
“Politics is like air and water. And you know if there is bad politics. Everyone is polluted. Everyone is unhealthy. See the people walking on the street: how they act.”
“Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.”
“Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.”
“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”
“Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live the lives of pilgrims.”
Source: Selected essays
“Politics is like opera without the music.”
“Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.”
“Politics is like sausages, you don't want to watch either being made.”
“Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow.”
Source: The Wicked Wit of Winston Churchill
“Politics is like watching football. Yes, you can see it directly on your screen, but I think a lot of people want to have some understanding of what's happening, why the play is unfolding the way it is, and I think that's where it can help them, not to render judgments but to help people make their own judgments in a more informed way.”
“Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.”
“Politics is made up of two words: "Poli," which is Greek for "many," and "tics," which are bloodsucking insects.”
“Politics is mainly about interests. As Muslim citizens, we understand these interests but we should put principles and dignity beyond everything.”
“Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once.”
“Politics is more difficult than physics.”
“Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.”
“Politics is mostly pill-taking.”
“Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.”
Source: The future of politics
“Politics is my business and I make it pay”
“Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.”
“Politics is my second love, next to my love for Raisa [Gorbacheva].”
“Politics is national, but all politics is personal.”
“Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.”
“Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person.”
“Politics is no exact science.”
“Politics is noble; it is one of the highest forms of charity, as Paul VI used to say. We sully it when we mix it with business. The relationship between the Church and political power can also be corrupted if common good is not the only converging point.”
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
“Politics is not a baseball game with winners or losers. What politics is about is whether we protect the needs of millions of people in this country who are hurting.”
“Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
Source: Liberalism and the Social Problem
“Politics is not a game. Thousands of people's jobs and services depended on what the GLC did, and they expected us to do the best we could.”
Source: If voting changed anything, they'd abolish it