Vanessa Redgrave Quotes

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

Choose the politics of principle over the politics of personality.

Vision is not political rhetoric

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations.

A political ideology is a very handy thing to have. It’s a real time saver because it tells you what you think about things you know nothing about.

You can’t set aside … values in the name of political expediency.

Politicians have conflicting values but not conflicting knowledge.

Macron talks about values, but he doesn't recognize the values itself, and therefore, they have no lessons to give to Italy.

Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.

Politics have no relation to morals.

Well, I don't know too many governors who are flaming ideologues.

You have a political and media elite who have an idiom by which they describe politics. It's highly, highly polarised. It's right, left, red, blue, up, down, victorious, crushed.

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

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

I respect Rush Limbaugh; he is a national conservative leader, and in no way do I want to diminish his voice.

I detest politics, to be honest with you. It's a cesspool. And I don't think I would fare well in that cesspool because I don't believe in political correctness and I certainly don't believe in dishonesty.

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

George Bush doesn't represent any civilization!

Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy.

Conventionality is not morality.

I was never a left-winger, actually. I was a pretend left-winger because it was more interesting than being a right-winger.

I'll never go against my morals.

I would never say John Kerry would be a great president. I will say that George Bush has divided us; he has filled this country with hatred.

One of the melancholy facts of political life is that your convictions tend to align with your paycheck.