Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
Don Lucchesi in The Godfather - Teil 3
3In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
You're in politics. You know that no one can claw their way to the top without getting a little dirt under their fingernails.
Victoria Leeds in Baywatch
They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
Statecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.
Ar-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4
Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.
Wilhuff Tarkin in Star Wars Books - Tarkin
Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.
I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
Nigel Farage - July 2002
What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
In politics, you need a feeling for what's possible and what's reasonable.
Does politics have to be injected into everything?
I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
What we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.
That's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
The happiness of society is the end of government.
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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2Democracy isn't just there. We have to work for it together - every day.
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1These days, I look in the mirror and I have to admit, I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be.
Barack Obama - White House Correspondents' Dinner 2013
1They missed a great opportunity to shut up.
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Obama: "This all dates back to when we were growing up together in Kenya. We had constant run-ins on the soccer field."
Barack Obama - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, October 2012
Artists use lies to tell the truth, while politicians use them to cover the truth up.
Evey Hammond in V for Vendetta
8Thor: "Do you see yourself above them?"
Loki: "Oh yes."
Thor: "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother."
Loki: "Oh yes."
Thor: "Then you miss the truth of ruling, brother."
Thor in The Avengers
3The economy is changing, the pace of change is accelerating, and what we’ve got to do is master those changes in order to make them work for us.
Pete Buttigieg - March 2019, via Twitter
A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.
Corrupt politicians make the other ten percent look bad.
Oh, great warrior? Wars not make one great.
The gods envy us. They envy us because we're mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Achilles in Troy
4Cady: "Yeah, I like math."
Damian: "Eww. Why?"
Cady: "Because it's the same in every country."
Damian: "Eww. Why?"
Cady: "Because it's the same in every country."
Cady Heron in Mean Girls
He never asks a second favour when he's been refused the first.
Tom Hagen in The Godfather
As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them.
Of all our dreams today there is none more important - or so hard to realise - than that of peace in the world. May we never lose our faith in it or our resolve to do everything that can be done to convert it one day into reality.
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by the naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - December 1941