Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

That part of the Englishman's nature which has found gratification in religion is now drifting into political life.

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

The world will not know liberty until all that is religious and political is transformed into something simple and human and made susceptible to criticism and denial.

In the end, Ted Kennedy was a politician, plain and simple. Yet he embodied how politics and public service can be successfully intertwined. You can't be a good public servant without being a good politician. Kennedy was both.

The best, most interesting years of my life were spent in government and politics.

I always had a respect and an admiration for people who got into politics. I certainly have always been interested in law and political science.

The member of Congress who is not making a career of politics looks quite differently at the world.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

I said that my father was not a politician. I, instead, think I am. But not in the sense of being interested in a political career - rather in the sense that I think it necessary to strive to build a certain India, the India I want.

I think we've seen at least the beginnings of rather significant social and economic change in the Muslim world, which I think will in due course lead to more political change.

We have to craft new political realities, not only in places like India, Afghanistan, Kenya, Pakistan, but here at home as well. Another world is possible.

Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.

I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo.

I am getting much more political as I get older. It's the duty of any writer, in particular, not to stand back from the world.

Being politically active is "more about doing things, not just standing for some platform or being involved in some political party."

It's important that people press from the outside. It's important that people are able to make change from the inside. Both of those things are important. Protest is fundamentally a political act.

What struck me more than anything is how the people that are involved in government start out from a place of really wanting to do well, no matter what kind of political spectrum they're on, how they have to hold onto that warm fuzzy place in their heart while they're stuck in the machine.

I do what I do. Barack Obama does what politicians do.

Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.

The elections are the greatest symbol of participation and political reform.

A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.

We can achieve much greater representation through term-limited members.

Well, why do you want a political career? Have you ever been in the House of Commons and taken a good square look at the inmates? As weird a gaggle of freaks and sub-humans as was ever collected in one spot.

I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session.

I will deal with the politicians in a political way and with the nonpoliticians in a nonpolitical way.