Interest In Politics Quotes

I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desire for power, but from a need to help our society live up to its ideals.

I still remember vividly watching television coverage of the Democratic National Convention in the summer of 1992 (when he was 17) when Bill Clinton got the nomination. That was certainly a part of my growing interest in politics.

I lived on the Greek side of Cypress, and I think that’s also where my interest in politics really started to come alive. It was the first time that I was told I couldn’t go somewhere: My grandfather’s house is on the Turkish side, but we were not allowed to go there.

I’m not taking any interest in politics. I’m not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

One of the chief symptoms of every revolution is the sharp and sudden increase in the number of ordinary people who take an active, independent and forceful interest in politics.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I see two opposite tendencies in Turkish society: people feel demoralized, they lose the interest in politics and retreat to their private lives; or they become very angry and even more politicized, and radicalized. Both trends are troublesome.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

I have absolutely zero interest in politics.

I have done political things, I couldn’t care less about politics. I have zero interest in politics, really. They don’t allure me. I have no interest in them, because if I could believe the law could change people’s behavior then I would become a politician. But only Christ can change the heart.

So I took an interest in politics, but I don’t know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife’s duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you!

There is a long-standing tradition in America of scoffing at poets, especially if they show any interest in politics.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

I’ve had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.