Fisher Ames Quotes

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I mean, the last thing I want to do is be involved in politics.

After thinking carefully about how I can best help my fellow Minnesotans, I have decided to not seek election for a different office in 2014. The warm encouragement from many people to run for U.S. senator or the governorship was deeply humbling.

I don't think I can remember a moment in my life where people didn't discuss politics. People discuss politics at the table.

Politics are close to me, but there are different ways of participating in politics.

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

I believe in the critical importance of participating in the political system - from voting to standing for election. It's both rewarding and necessary that men and women of good will and clear thinking engage in honest, open debate.

People like passion in politics.

I happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.

How many thousands pronounce boldly on the affairs of the public whom God nor men never qualified for such judgment?

We do not say that a man who takes no interest in politics is a man who minds his own business; we say that he has no business here at all.

I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues ….

As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.

It is my right and my duty as a politician to speak about the problems in our country.

If you believe in democracy, than you can't trash it by being cynical about the people who do democracy: the politicians.

I'd like to vote for a bill. But I'm not going to vote for one unless I think it's going to be good for the area I represent.

Obviously, I am a member of Congress, and things that I say are elevated on a national level, and I understand that very clearly.

I keep an eye on politics, although I wouldn't say I'm political.

I've spoken about politics a lot over the years and my main issue that I championed was just general engagement in politics.

Our country is miserably off track; this is something that all but the far left agree on. I personally came to the point where I felt a responsibility to try to do something about it, and I've been blessed enough in business to be able to take a shot at running for office.

I started off tagging stuff - I'm not meant to be having tea and biscuits with the prime minister.