P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.”
“Politics is not a profession, it is a service. I want to keep working more for the Nation not because of the designation, but because people of India are my family.”
“Politics is not a science, as the professors are apt to suppose. It is an art.”
“Politics is not a science...but an art.”
“Politics is not a tea party. When it is time to act, you have to move fast and decisively.”
“Politics is not a world for the squeamish or fainthearted.”
“Politics is not about a person. We transform America not by electing some guy or woman to be president; we transform this country when millions of people stand up and fight back. That will result in good leadership on top. So the goal right now is not to worry about who's going to be running in 2020 or 2080. The goal now is to mobilize millions of people around a progressive agenda.”
“Politics is not about justice, but about solutions.”
“Politics is not about personal ambition, but about the collective aspirations of a nation. True leadership lies in serving the people with integrity, empathy, and a commitment to positive change.”
Source: Bishop's Insight : Wisdom for the Political Sphere
“Politics is not about power. True politics is mastering all the forms of love, then power will come by itself.”
“Politics is not about power.”
“Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people's lives.”
“Politics is not about schmoozing, it's about boxing. And you have to enter the arena; you have to come close enough that your face would ready the face of the other guy; and the price is that he can reach your face.”
“Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.”
Source: Becoming Wellstone: Healing from Tragedy and Carrying on My Father's Legacy
“Politics is not an end, but a means. It is not a product, but a process. It is the art of government. Like other values it has its counterfeits. So much emphasis has been placed upon the false that the significance of the true has been obscured and politics has come to convey the meaning of crafty and cunning selfishness, instead of candid and sincere service.”
Source: Calvin Coolidge, His Ideals of Citizenship as Revealed Through His Speeches and Writings
“Politics is not an exact science.”
“Politics is not an isolated, individualist adventure. Women really need to emerge as a power to be the countervailing power to the men. And Eleanor Roosevelt's really the dynamo and the spearhead of that effort.”
“Politics is not an issue whether you like or dislike , but every citizen must involve.”
“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
“Politics is not for sissies.”
“Politics is not going to save this world, science and technology are not going to save this world, religion and spirituality are not going to save this world - what will is our understanding of which belongs where and to what extent.”
Source: Operation Justice: To Make A Society That Needs No Law
“Politics is not how you vote, it is how you live. It is not how you choose, but how you think.”
“Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in our world and bringing about more peace and more justice. -Paul Wellstone (Minnesota Senator, Al Franken predecessor)”
Source: Al Franken, Giant of the Senate
“Politics is not just about voting one day every four years. Politics is the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the road we walk on.”
“Politics is not left, right or center ... It's about improving people's lives.”
“Politics is not like an ocean voyage or a military campaign... something which leaves off as soon as reached. It is not a public chore to be gotten over with. It is a way of life.”
“Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.”
Source: I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up
“Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.”
“Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.”
“Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.”
“Politics is not really different from marriage. You cannot get things done in your relationship if you tell your wife: Look, if you haven't made the bed and if you don't get the food on the table, I will go and just hire someone and you will become irrelevant. That is not how you make a marriage work.”
“Politics is not really my thing.”
“Politics is not religion and we should govern on the basis of evidence, not theology.”
“Politics is not what it pretends to be, the expression of a collective will. Politics breathes well only where this will is multiple, hesitant, confused, and obscure even to itself.”
“Politics is not worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space.”
“Politics is nothing more than the elite's version of Gang Wars. You have the left gang and the right gang and they will literally kill people to achieve more control for themselves.”
“Politics is of the heart as well as of the mind. Many people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
“Politics is opposed to morality, as philosophy to naïveté.”
“Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.”
“Politics is ours: never let someone who doesn't sound like you, who wouldn't dream of going to the same school as you, who thinks they can just throw you a slogan without ever actually planning on delivering it make you feel as if politics is for someone else. It's ours and it only gets better when we make it better.”
Source: Everything You Really Need to Know About Politics: My Life as an MP
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
“Politics is personal—hating it is to deny a piece of your own identity.”
“Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.”
“Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.”
Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.”
“Politics is pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.”
“Politics is quite draining. There are so many heated discussions and press conferences to cover during a convention.”
“Politics is rather the creation of the best possible polity out of the deep inner needs of its citizenry - who are only some of its members.”
Source: The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age
“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.”
Source: Flying
“Politics is show business for ugly people.”