Politics Quotes

"Listen: Bibb Latimore had already told me that we were not going to be saved by politicians."

"Being American is to eat a hot dog and have it be someone's business."

"I want to speak now to the real issue of the day."

"I'm a feminist, and I've never understood why."

"The politician speaks; the poet acts."

"America I've given you all and now I'm nothing."

"Nobody saves America by sneezing McDonald hamburgers."

"The only politics is individual vision."

"Political change comes from changed consciousness."

"Politics reflects the moral state of a nation."

"Politics is the art of making your truth seem like everyone's truth."

"Politics shapes the destiny of nations."

"Politics reflects the values we choose to live by."

"Politics is the art of compromise."

"I'm troubled by what we have made of ourselves and our earth."

"Politics divorced from ethics becomes the machinery of oppression."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics should serve the people."

"Politics shapes society but does not define morality."

"Politics is ethics applied to community."

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, and applying the wrong remedy."

"Politics is the art of organizing human beings for common good."

"Politics without ethics is merely the pursuit of power."

"The politics of compassion always triumph over the politics of fear."

"The heart of this country is in its people, not in its government."

"Politics without heart becomes tyranny."

"Politics is the struggle to decide how we live together."

"Politics is the art of compromise; those who refuse to compromise often stand alone."

"Fascism is capitalism plus murder."

"Let the capitalists themselves withdraw their capital."