Politics Quotes
Transactional politics requires us to be pragmatic about current realities and the state of public opinion. It's all about getting the best result possible given the circumstances here and now.
Eric Schneiderman
Former Attorney General of New York
I have yet to meet members of a leadership team who I thought lacked the intelligence or the domain expertise required to be successful. I've met many, however, who failed to foster organizational health. Their companies were riddled with politics, various forms of dysfunction, and general confusion about their direction and mission.
Patrick Lencioni
American author
The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved.
Mark Rutte
Prime Minister of the Netherlands`
I usually stay out of politics, but people have asked me whether the American Healthcare Act (AHCA), if passed by the Senate, will affect me personally. I'm about music, not politics, but the fact is this one has me freaked out for poor and disabled people.
Jason Becker
American composer
I am a longstanding critic of British foreign policy - and an opponent of the authoritarian, quasi-imperialist, racist, homophobic politics of Putin.
Caroline Lucas
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Even though I'm not Jamaican, I've always loved Jamaican culture because, to me, it's the island of magic, it's the island of politics, of resistance.
Cheo Hodari Coker
American journalist
I still want to hold on to my beliefs, and as long as I have that, I won't stray too far from politics.
Maggie Williams
Political consultant
Today, parliaments are more important because of the need of legitimacy, of the popular legitimacy, of public opinion legitimacy of politics. Parliaments are, at the end of the day, the only true legitimacy.
Enrico Letta
Member of the Chamber of Deputies of Italy
I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy.
Richard Linklater
American film director
I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
Brian Mulroney
Former Prime Minister of Canada
Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
Fareed Zakaria
Indian-American journalist
Music really matters in politics.
Lp
American singer-songwriter
Indonesia is hardly immune to catastrophic breakdowns, as the anti-Communist pogrom showed. But, like India, it has been relatively fortunate in evolving a mode of politics that can include many discontinuities - of class, region, ethnicity, and religion.
Pankaj Mishra
Indian essayist
Architecture is politics.
Mitch Kapor
American entrepreneur
There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause.
Mao Zedong
Former President of the People's Republic of China
I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
Nigel Farage
Former Member of the European Parliament
No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
Iain Duncan Smith
Member of Parliament of the United Kingdom
Part of the problem in politics is that people only look at the next four to eight years: kick the can down the road and say, 'Hey, it's the next person's problem.'
Michael Nutter
American politician
Barack Obama's historic 2008 presidential campaign touched on all the themes I have covered throughout my career and all of the layers of meaning that run through black politics. Ambition. Aspiration. Fear. Folly. It was all on display as Obama boarded the roller coaster that ultimately led to the White House.
Gwen Ifill
American journalist
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