Political Passion Quotes

American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.

Partisanship is a fire not to be quenched. It demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its busting into a flame, lest instead of warming, it should consume.

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

There was a time when I was enamored of the Clintons. I knocked on doors, phone-banked and rallied during his campaign.

The Russian Revolution mobilized a popular passion across the world based on Marxism-Leninism, fueled by messianic zeal. It was, perhaps, after the three Abrahamic religions, the greatest millenarian rapture of human history.

When I first ran for public office, it was with the passion and idealism of a young man who believed that government could help make our lives better, that public service was a calling and that citizenship demanded responsibilities. There was a greater good.

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Politics is in my blood.

I wonder about guys like Sean Hannity, Keith Olbermann and Mark Levin. They're on such a mission. I mean, I love Hannity and Levin to death, but on the radio they're insane. How can you keep that up?

Labour is at its best when it remembers its moral fury.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

… it would be quite as easy to give 40 times 40 reasons why gentlemen should not engage in politics with such fiery zeal that they sometimes do, as it is to give 40 why ladies should not engage in them as well.

Politics inflame the passions in a way that few beloveds can match.

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate.

Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

An excessive amount of my time is taken with political involvement. It's unavoidable; that's my temperament.

My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics.

Working on a campaign and running for president should be a visceral, emotional, passionate, and intense experience.

People like passion in politics.

My hobby (politics) has become my life. I have the greatest life imaginable. I think I have a greater life than anyone in the universe, in fact.

The people who show up at the early primaries are very passionate and not much interested in compromise.

I am passionate. I am political about my country, about what it is, how strong it is, how strong it remains.

Politics is always a difficult thing to talk about because, like football, the views are radical. You think this way; that guy thinks the opposite way. It is, like, nearly a fight, and feelings are very strong.