Antonio Guterres Quotes

Men and not measures are, no doubt, the very life of politics. But then it is not the fashion to say so in public places.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

It is impossible to take politics out of politics.

Every intellectual attitude is latently political.

I don’t think you’d call the President political.

The problem is that once we focus on economic policy, much that is not science comes into play. Politics becomes involved, and political posturing is amply rewarded by public attention.

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.

The people we elect aren't bipartisan. The American public is bipartisan.

I do not believe that politics in the long run is about individuals. It is about ideas.

Liberal: a power worshipper without power.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

I'm not in the business of politics.

Government frequently has a problem recognizing perception versus reality.

What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base.

I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.

When I talk to people outside the beltway, I don't think people are that divided.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Everything's viewed with a political lens in Washington, and that's just the nature of the beast, and it is what it is.

Of course, my own political beliefs inform the ideas I come up with.

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

Everything is politics.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.