P Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with P. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Politics, like insurance, security, pharmaceutical and religious institutions all work the same. They sell the idea of a threat along with the antidote. Marketing 101.”
“Politics look very simple to the outsider whether he is a businessman or a soldier – it is only when you get into it that all the angles and hard work become apparent. James Forrestal”
Source: 1948: Harry Truman's Improbable Victory and the Year that Transformed America
“Politics make me sick”
“Politics make strange bedfellows.”
“Politics makes estranged bedfellows.”
“Politics makes strange bedfellows.”
“Politics makes strange post-masters.”
“Politics matters. Ideas matter. Democracy matters, because all of us need to be able to make a difference.”
Source: Speaking Out Louder: Ideas That Work for Canadians
“Politics may be the art of the possible; but, at least in life, give the impossible a go.”
“Politics may come and go, but Greed goes on forever.”
Source: A Fire Upon The Deep
“Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.”
“Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress.”
Source: The Education Decree
“Politics means implementation of the best ideas for the society in the path of wellbeing and progress. This is the approach that gave the world, leaders of glorious characters such as Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King Jr., Subhas Chandra Bose (the actual man behind India’s Independence), Vasil Levski (the man who liberated Bulgaria from the Ottoman oppression), Nelson Mandela and many more. These people were technically politicians too, but unlike the majority of the politicians of
modern society, their approach to politics was what it should be in a real system of politics.”
Source: The Education Decree
“Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.”
Source: From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology
“Politics move, as fast as Twitter, and for everyone to think that in four years America was going to be perfect is ridiculous.”
“Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.”
“Politics, murder, sex, and two-headed goats are the only things newspapers care to report about. You have to read scientific journals to know what's really happening.”
“Politics must be founded on the solid faith of God almighty”
“Politics must not be separated from religious values; religion must not be separated from political responsibility.”
Source: New Kind of Conservative (Large Print 16pt)
“Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.”
“Politics needs a flexible mind, for it has no immutable or eternal rules. In politics immutable or eternal rules lead to inevitable and swift defeat.”
“Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.”
Source: My Chicago
“Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.”
“Politics now is really only about self-interest, which means it has violence built into it because your self-interest is going to collide with the self-interest of the rest of the world. That's inevitable.”
“Politics of all sorts, I confess, are far beyond my limited powers of comprehension. Those of this country as far as I have been able to observe, resolve themselves into two great motives. The aristocratic desire of elevation and separation, and the democratic desire of demolishing and levelling.”
Source: Journal of a Residence in America
“Politics offers yesterday's answers to today's problems.”
“Politics or ideology must not get in the way of sound planning.”
“Politics ought to be adjusted not to human reasonings but to human nature, of which reason is but a part and by no means the greatest part.”
Source: Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with characters, from the works of ... Edmund Burke
“Politics ought to be fun. It shouldn't be just boring meetings.”
“Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954
“Politics pretty quiet over the week-end. Democrats are attacking and the Republicans are defending. All the Democrats have to do is promise "what they would do if they got in." But the Republicans have to promise "what they would do" and then explain why they haven't already "done it".”
“Politics preys on people's naivety”
Source: The Great Pearl of Wisdom
“Politics really is a team sport. You really have to work the whole system to get somewhere down the road.”
“Politics really must be a rotten profession considering what awful moral cowards most politicians become as soon as they get the job.”
Source: The Face of War
“Politics resemble religion; attempting to divest either of ceremony is the most certain mode of bringing either into contempt.”
“Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do - make films, create art, watch it as it evolves. Right now it's like Humpty Dumpty sitting on a wall, and a great fall is happening. The behavior seems to be really dumb.”
“Politics ruins the character.”
“Politics seems much less important today. When you see your young daughter smiling as she was, and moving around, it's a superb feeling.”
“Politics seems to require a morality quite apart from that of personal life, posing a tragic dilemma for Brutus as for Richard II or Henry VI.”
Source: The Complete Works of Shakespeare
“Politics should be about politics, not tribal ties”
“Politics should be for people, politics shouldn't be for politicians.”
Source: Wealth of Words
“Politics should be limited in scope to ware, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.”
“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.”
“Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.”
“Politics should be, you know, as exciting as literature, as exciting film.”
“Politics should never be personal. I support people's principles or leadership qualities. It's never about their faces or media campaigns.”
“Politics should seize the imagination.”
“Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.”
Source: Statecraft as Soulcraft
“politics –
some verbal tics
of poly-tricks”
“Politics sometimes is not only unnecessary but also unnecessary complicated.”