| Author | Quote | Rank |
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| Groucho Marx | Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. | 101 |
| Dante Alighieri | The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis. | 101 |
| John Adams | I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.  | 101 |
| Joseph Stalin | It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. | 101 |
| Aristophanes | Under every stone lurks a politician. | 101 |
| Clarence Darrow | When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it. | 101 |
| David Frum | To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. | 101 |
| Deborah Eisenberg | Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication. | 101 |
| Ed Gillespie | Politics swings like a pendulum. | 101 |
| Ewan McGregor | I've always been really uninterested in politicians and the acts of the Houses of Parliament, or government as an idea. But I'm interested in politics in that I'm a member of the world, and I have strong feelings of right and wrong, but I can't get into the ins and outs of it. | 101 |
| George Will | Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. | 101 |
| Ian Lustick | Just as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics. When those thresholds are crossed, the impossible suddenly becomes probable, with revolutionary implications for governments and nations. | 101 |
| Ivan Krastev | Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust. | 101 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. | 101 |
| Laura Bush | I mean, the part you don't like, I mean, that's the only part. That's the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that's also just a fact of life in politics. | 101 |
| Liev Schreiber | My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election. | 101 |
| Mikhail Bakunin | Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will. | 101 |
| Newt Gingrich | Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. | 101 |
| Norm MacDonald | I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world. | 101 |
| Paul Wellstone | There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics. | 101 |
| Robert Dallek | American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions. | 101 |
| Robertson Davies | Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don't know what they are conserving. | 101 |
| Theodore White | The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. | 101 |
| Victor Pinchuk | Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics. | 101 |
| will.i.am | You can rule ignorance; you can manipulate the illiterate; you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics. | 101 |
| Yair Lapid | Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation. | 101 |
| A. J. Liebling | Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one. | 101 |
| Abbas Kiarostami | I would say that no film is apolitical. There are politics in all films. Any film that is anchored in a society, any film that deals with humanity is necessarily political. | 101 |
| Alastair Campbell | So here is one of my theories on happiness: we cannot know if we have lived a truly happy life until the very end. This view of life and death was reinforced by my close witnessing of the buildup to the death of Philip Gould. Philip was without doubt my closest friend in politics. When he died, I felt like I had lost a limb. | 101 |
| Beau Willimon | This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want them to be bastions of moral integrity, perfect people, saints. And on the other hand, we want them to be effective leaders. | 101 |
| Charles Dudley Warner | Politics makes strange bedfellows. | 101 |
| Charles W. Pickering | A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. | 101 |
| Christine Pelosi | Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. | 101 |
| Darrell Issa | It's very simple. If the American people care about a lot of things including corruption in government, then, in fact, if you use the power to appoint in order to do political business, to clear fields, to save your party money and so on, if it's not a crime - and I believe it is - it certainly is business as usual, politics of corruption. | 101 |
| Denise Mina | I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. | 101 |
| Douglas Wilder | Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it. | 101 |
| Frank Lautenberg | One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. | 101 |
| Fred Frith | I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn't exactly win us any friends. | 101 |
| Honeysuckle Weeks | Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one. | 101 |
| Laura Ingraham | There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing. | 101 |
| Lee Atwater | My childhood, adolescence and high school days are unusually important. If there has ever been a time that I developed a uniqueness and sense of humor and the ability to organize, it was then. In those early days, I developed the skills that gave me a certain degree of success in American politics. | 101 |
| Marcia Fudge | At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. | 101 |
| Miguel Syjuco | I love my homeland, but it's an absurd country. Politics in the Philippines is like spectator sports! | 101 |
| Moshe Sharett | Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine. | 101 |
| Nate Powell | My sense of politics and justice was deeply shaped in adolescence by my involvement with the underground punk - rock scene, and though lots of social and political issues had come forth in my comics, it wasn't until my late 20s that I felt properly equipped to address certain issues of race, power, and violence in my work. | 101 |
| Peter Guber | Think about all the great leaders. Think about Obama. Think about Clinton. Think about Nelson Mandela. Think about all the people that we know who are very successful in business, in politics and religion. What are they? They tell purposeful stories. They move people to action by aiming at the heart. | 101 |
| Simon Schama | In the early nineteenth century, with Enlightenment optimism soured by years of war and revolution, critics were skeptical of America's naive faith that it had reinvented politics. | 101 |
| Tammy Baldwin | In my grandfather's lab, scientists did independent research, and peers reviewed and commented on its merits. Politics, he taught me, had no place in the scientific process. | 101 |
| Willie Brown | In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours. | 101 |
| David Talbot | I came at age in the '60s, and initially my hopes and dreams were invested in politics and the movements of the time - the anti-war movement, the civil rights movement. I worked on Bobby Kennedy's campaign for president as a teenager in California and the night he was killed. | 101 |
| Ely Culbertson | The bizarre world of cards is a world of pure power politics where rewards and punishments are meted out immediately. | 101 |
| Fawn M. Brodie | A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both. | 101 |
| Howard Fineman | A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. | 101 |
| J. William Fulbright | In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith. | 101 |
| Max Cannon | Now interpersonal politics... that's what it's all about. | 101 |
| Peter MacKay | I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them. | 101 |
| Piers Morgan | There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics. | 101 |
| Preneet Kaur | Politics is a potent way to empower women. | 101 |
| Richard Armour | Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. | 101 |
| Robert Teeter | Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics. | 101 |
| Sharad Pawar | In politics one should not expect big jumps. Everything takes time. | 101 |
| William E. Simon | Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote. | 101 |
| William Randolph | A politician will do anything to keep his job - even become a patriot. | 101 |
| Artur Davis | As I prepare for this next phase in my life, I ask that people continue to offer the prayers that have protected me thus far. I also pray that I will always see those who are not seen and easy to forget in the hustle and bustle of Washington politics. | 101 |
| Brooks Adams | Politics, as a practice, whatever its profession, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | 101 |
| Caskie Stinnett | A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. | 101 |
| Cheryl Mills | Women are not only deciding the outcome of elections, they serve as important role models for their daughters and other young women - they hold a key to expanding the way in which women value and experience politics. | 101 |
| Eugene McCarthy | Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. | 101 |
| Gary Hart | I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot. | 101 |
| Henry M. Jackson | The best politics is no politics. | 101 |
| James McGreevey | We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views. | 101 |
| Khaleda Zia | It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. | 101 |
| Martin L. Gross | We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy. | 101 |
| Robert Novak | Howard Dean is not the first politician to distort facts in his own interests. But many activists in the party he now leads are puzzled over what he thinks he is accomplishing politically. Is it good politics to contend that Iraq was better off under Saddam Hussein than even a flawed Islamic republic? | 101 |
| Roy Hattersley | In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. | 101 |
| Winfield Scott Hancock | My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all. | 101 |
| Cal Thomas | One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are. | 101 |
| Jacob Bronowski | No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. | 101 |
| Jacques Delors | The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. | 101 |
| Lee Kun-hee | Korea can't become a 'first-class' nation unless regulation and 'a sense of power' disappear. The nation's politics is the fourth-class, bureaucratic are the third-class, and business is the second-class. | 101 |
| Paul Conroy | Britain, along with the U.S.A., is war weary, and after the travesty of Iraq and Afghanistan, has grave misgivings in any future involvement in the Middle East. The ghost of Tony Blair and his single-minded determination to attack Iraq, at any cost, has cast a long shadow over British politics. The British public have a long collective memory. | 101 |
| Phil Crane | I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends. | 101 |
| Rip Torn | Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more. | 101 |
| Theodore Hesburgh | Voting is a civic sacrament. | 101 |
| Louis Adolphe Thiers | In politics it is necessary to take nothing tragically and everything seriously. | 101 |
| Roger Morris | When dealing with American politics, you try to follow the money, and that's where it leads you. It doesn't take you to the electoral college or to Princeton. It takes you down the darker alleys of American life. | 101 |
| Bob Spitz | The Beatles' story is all of our stories. It is about how the youth culture emerged, the drug culture emerged, how politics rose to the fore as a universal debate. It's about rebellion, it's about the growth of the British entertainment system, the growth of the rock n' roll entertainment system. | 101 |
| Cristina Kirchner | I bring a lot of passion to my life and my politics - I don't mind saying there is a very strong Latin component to it. | 101 |
| Roy Jenkins | The great disadvantage of our present electoral system is that it freezes the pattern of politics, and holds together the incompatible because everyone assumes that if a party splits it will be electorally slaughtered. | 101 |
| Alan Clark | There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. | 101 |
| Juan Vargas | Politics is not an obsession with me. It's something I'm doing now. I want to do good things, but if it doesn't work out for me, I'll go on to something else. | 101 |
| R. A. Butler | In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves. | 101 |
| Alexander Lebedev | It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics. | 101 |
| Joseph Cannon | Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. | 101 |
| John George Nicolay | Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry. | 101 |
| Manning Marable | By dismantling the narrow politics of racial identity and selective self-interest, by going beyond 'black' and 'white,' we may construct new values, new institutions and new visions of an America beyond traditional racial categories and racial oppression. | 101 |
| August Bebel | We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism. | 101 |
| Johanna Siguroardottir | There is a time for everything, also for my time in politics which has been long and eventful. Now I believe it is time for others to take the baton that was passed to me following the crash. I have therefore decided to leave political life at the end of this term. | 101 |
| Jack Buck | It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. | 101 |
| Joseph Crowley | Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions. | 101 |
| Joseph Sobran | Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized. | 101 |
| Justina Machado | I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this. | 101 |
| James P. Cannon | The art of politics is knowing what to do next. | 101 |
| John Wilkes | That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. | 101 |
| Gloria Steinem | Pop culture shapes our ideas of what is normal and what our dreams can be and what our roles are. Politics, of course, decides how the power and the money in the country is distributed. Both are equally important, and each affects the other. | 102 |
| Margaret Thatcher | I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. | 102 |
| Ray Bradbury | I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. | 102 |
| Gore Vidal | By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he's been bought ten times over. | 102 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it. | 102 |
| Charles Krauthammer | Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians. | 102 |
| Diane Hendricks | It's sad that we vote for and elect officials to run our state, run our country, over social issues. I don't believe they belong in politics. | 102 |
| Dick Morris | There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, and on the other hand, bounded by what the media says is politically correct. And that's where Donald Trump lives. And it's our failure to admit what we all know to be true in the guise of political correctness that fuels the Trump candidacy. | 102 |
| Edgar Mitchell | You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics looks so petty. | 102 |
| Elliott Abrams | While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile - what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries - seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. | 102 |
| Emma Goldman | If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. | 102 |
| Enda Kenny | Populist promises to reverse every tough decision are nothing but empty rhetoric, irresponsible leadership, and bad politics. They are not the solution to Ireland's problems. | 102 |
| Fidel Castro | The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters. | 102 |
| Kinky Friedman | Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get. | 102 |
| Mitt Romney | The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. | 102 |
| Nancy Reagan | The movies were custard compared to politics. | 102 |
| Nick Clegg | One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system. | 102 |
| Rahul Gandhi | I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics. | 102 |
| Ralph Nader | The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. | 102 |
| Richard J. Daley | Good government is good politics. | 102 |
| Robert Byrne | Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. | 102 |
| Tony Blair | I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. | 102 |
| Tony Campolo | Flipping the dial through available radio stations there will blare out to any listener an array of broadcasts, 24/7, propagating Religious Right politics, along with what they deem to be 'old-time gospel preaching.' This is especially true of what comes over the airwaves in Bible Belt southern states. | 102 |
| William O. Douglas | Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance. | 102 |
| Yoshihiko Noda | When I became prime minister last September, I promised the Japanese people that I would not tolerate the politics of indecision. A propensity to delay difficult and weighty decisions has been hurting our country. It is detrimental to our economy, society and future, and it cannot be allowed to continue. | 102 |
| Zell Miller | I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny. | 102 |
| Abdolkarim Soroush | Religion forbids us from assuming a God-like character. This is especially true in politics and government, where limiting the power of the state, division of powers, and the doctrine of checks and balances are established in order to prevent accumulation of power that might lead to such Godly claims. | 102 |
| Ann Richards | Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics. | 102 |
| Beau Willimon | A lot of people have asked me whether I am a cynic or take a cynical view of politics and are often surprised when I say that I consider myself an optimist, but an optimist dressed in the robes of a realist. | 102 |
| Carrie Mae Weems | I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium. | 102 |
| Charles Jencks | Science is a victim of its own reductive metaphors: 'Big Bang,' 'selfish gene' and so on. Richard Dawkins' selfish gene fitted with the Thatcherite politics of the time. It should actually be the 'altruistic gene,' but he'd never have sold as many books with a title like that. | 102 |
| Dennis Kucinich | My philosophy comes from a worldview that looks at the world as one. It's a holistic view that sees the world as interconnected and interdependent and integrated in so many different ways, which informs my politics. | 102 |
| Eugene Jarecki | The whole idea of a democracy is that we ourselves, the people, are supposed to make a path of our politics, and it is we who with our feet and our vote and our labors and our vigilance are supposed to shape our country. | 102 |
| Grover Cleveland | Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. | 102 |
| Neal Barnard | The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. | 102 |
| Nicolle Wallace | I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually. | 102 |
| Richard Linklater | I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy. | 102 |
| Robert Jackson | If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act. | 102 |
| Shinzo Abe | I think it is the responsibility of anyone involved in politics to always think of what Japan can do to contribute more to the peace and stability not just of Japan and the region but of the entire world. | 102 |
| Todd Gitlin | My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics. | 102 |
| Vera Brittain | Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. | 102 |
| Alphonse de Lamartine | The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs. | 102 |
| Anupam Kher | Actors in the film industry are usually wary of expressing their opinions on the issues of the day, politics especially. | 102 |
| Bidzina Ivanishvili | It was not my wish to come into politics. I was not a public person; I preferred to spend my birthdays with family and friends. But the 2008 elections were fraudulent, so I decided to finance the opposition to make them stronger. | 102 |
| Bob Barr | Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country. | 102 |
| Bob Ehrlich | We discussed politics, but we also talked about the importance of hard work, personal responsibility, living within your means, keeping your word. Those lessons stay with you throughout your life. | 102 |
| Bob Geldof | I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined. | 102 |
| Chuck Todd | Every election matters. Anyone that tells you otherwise doesn't understand politics. That said, not every election sends sweeping messages that are easy to discern, but every election provides lessons worth learning. | 102 |
| Eleanor Clift | People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician. | 102 |
| Eskinder Nega | In the long march of history, at least two poles of attraction and antagonism have been the norm in world politics. Rarely has only one nation carried the burden of leadership. The unipolar world of the 21st century, dominated for the past two decades by the United States, is a historical anomaly. | 102 |
| Harry Shearer | Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. | 102 |
| Lyman Beecher | No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy. | 102 |
| Mark Rutte | The good thing about the IMF is there is no European politics involved. | 102 |
| Piers Morgan | There is a type of snobbish, pompous journalist who thinks that the only news that has any validity is war, famine, pestilence or politics. I don't come from that school. | 102 |
| Aaron Schock | The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business. | 102 |
| Hyman Rickover | If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. | 102 |
| Jackie Mason | I've been watching politics for 35 or 40 years and you just never know. You can have one person win the Iowa caucus and then the whole picture changes ten minutes later. The same thing can happen again after New Hampshire. I have no idea what's going to happen with our country in the future. | 102 |
| James Wolcott | The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops. | 102 |
| Paddy Chayefsky | Television is democracy at its ugliest. | 102 |
| Pam Ferris | The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded. | 102 |
| Raquel Cassidy | A high-powered, successful woman doesn't necessarily have the same support behind her that a man in that position would. Plus, she's expected to be a domestic goddess, as well as the best wife, mother, friend, and lover. But it's not just in politics: you see it in acting, too, and in journalism. | 102 |
| Tatyana Tolstaya | Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. | 102 |
| Goodman Ace | Politics makes estranged bedfellows. | 102 |
| Lewis H. Lapham | Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly? | 102 |
| Lord Hailsham | The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. | 102 |
| Michael Ashcroft | The Conservatives do not want to go into an election with the leaders' relative ratings as they are - but it is depressing to hear that plans are afoot to paint Miliband as the Michael Dukakis of British politics: part of a metropolitan elite with no understanding of mainstream concerns. | 102 |
| Riteish Deshmukh | Life itself has so much politics, why should I make it my profession? I'm just a politician's son, not a politician myself. Two politicians, that's my dad and elder brother, in the family are enough. I'm happy doing my own stuff in Bollywood. | 102 |
| Terry Savage | But only 'rich' people by definition have the 'extra' money to buy things and invest to create economic growth. Do we really want to tax that 'extra' money away - and give it to the government to spend? Does that make any economic sense outside of politics and our emotional desire to make everyone suffer equally through these tough times? | 102 |
| Bruno Latour | The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this. | 102 |
| Jack Germond | American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome. | 102 |
| Raul Castro | In Cuba, taking into account the long fight for our independence and sovereignty, we will defend the one-party system in the face of the games, demagogy and the marketing of politics. | 102 |
| Robin Li | People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live. | 102 |
| Shane Claiborne | I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love. | 102 |
| Billy Hughes | Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. | 102 |
| Rob McKenna | You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time. | 102 |
| Carter Glass | A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money. | 102 |
| James MacGregor Burns | Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique. | 102 |
| John G. Diefenbaker | The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place. | 102 |
| Meg Greenfield | If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. | 102 |
| Michel De Certeau | Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious. | 102 |
| John Foster Dulles | The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. | 102 |
| Joko Widodo | It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. | 102 |
| John Harwood | Press critics worry that the rise of media polarization threatens the foundation of credible, common information that American politics needs to thrive. | 102 |
| H. L. Mencken | The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. | 103 |
| John F. Kennedy | Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future. | 103 |
| Charles de Gaulle | Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. | 103 |
| Aesop | We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. | 103 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. | 103 |
| Catherine the Great | In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions. | 103 |
| Elaine Pagels | I got to thinking about the Book of Revelation that was written by a Jewish prophet who was also a follower of Jesus who hated the Roman Empire. I realized that the Book of Revelation could be a way to reflect on the issue of religion's relationship to politics. | 103 |
| Emma Goldman | No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. | 103 |
| Evgeny Morozov | A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook. | 103 |
| Gwen Ifill | Hope springs eternal, even in politics. | 103 |
| Imran Khan | In Pakistan politics is hereditary. | 103 |
| Jonathan Haidt | Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood. | 103 |
| Lady Bird Johnson | Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. | 103 |
| Mark McKinnon | Hypocrisy is the scarlet letter in politics. | 103 |
| Nick Hanauer | The truth is that all civic and social change is friction. Politics is friction. The only way you can bend the arc of history is to create that kind of friction, which is something that makes most people incredibly uncomfortable but which, for whatever reason, because of my upbringing or because of my genetics, is something that doesn't bug me. | 103 |
| Norman Foster | There's a snobbery at work in architecture. The subject is too often treated as a fine art, delicately wrapped in mumbo-jumbo. In reality, it's an all-embracing discipline taking in science, art, maths, engineering, climate, nature, politics, economics. | 103 |
| Pericles | Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. | 103 |
| Robert Orben | Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? | 103 |
| Ross Perot | War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. | 103 |
| Thomas Mallon | One's politics are part of one even when one is writing. But if I want to say anything about the state of civil society, I will write an essay. The responsibilities you feel as a novelist are literary ones, I think, not civic ones. And I think politicians are interesting to write about. | 103 |
| Thomas P. O'Neill | All politics is local. | 103 |
| Warren G. Harding | America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. | 103 |
| Yulia Tymoshenko | My goal in politics from the very beginning has been, and will be, the goal of giving Ukraine a chance to finally secure a firm footing in the world as a competitive, independent and real European state. | 103 |
| Beau Willimon | If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself. | 103 |
| Eric Alterman | The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. | 103 |
| Mario Cuomo | There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory. | 103 |
| Michael Ignatieff | Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyond politics - one people, one land, one truth, the end of difference. Since genocide is a form of political utopia, it remains an enduring temptation in any multiethnic and multicultural society in crisis. | 103 |
| Robert Byrd | It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. | 103 |
| Shashi Tharoor | I believe in an India of pluralism and diversity, not of religious bigotry and caste politics. I believe in an India that is secure in itself and confident of its place in the world, an India that is a proud example of tolerance, freedom and hope for the downtrodden. | 103 |
| Simon McBurney | Living in France while the Falklands War was going on, I felt a profound sense of shame and betrayal, just as I did by the war in Iraq. People have asked why I don't talk about that directly in my plays. Well, politics needs to be articulated in many different ways. | 103 |
| Sonia Gandhi | It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities. | 103 |
| Stewart Udall | We have, I fear, confused power with greatness. | 103 |
| Bobby Moynihan | I'm not very big on politics. I'm a comedian and not that smart. I don't have the mind capacity for it. | 103 |
| Cass McCombs | I don't care much about politics. That kind of witchcraft I stay away from because people end up dead. I'd rather die for music. | 103 |
| Chuck Todd | 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. | 103 |
| John Cusack | When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. | 103 |
| Mark Udall | On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. | 103 |
| Meghan Markle | I had always been the theater nerd at Northwestern University. I knew I wanted to do acting, but I hated the idea of being this cliche - a girl from L.A. who decides to be an actress. I wanted more than that, and I had always loved politics, so I ended up changing my major completely, and double-majoring in theater and international relations. | 103 |
| Mike Quigley | I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics. | 103 |
| Naomi Klein | Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear. | 103 |
| Roger Nash Baldwin | So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. | 103 |
| Stone Gossard | Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences. | 103 |
| Barbara Castle | In politics, guts is all. | 103 |
| Belle Boyd | There are those who maintain that in this world women have no right to interfere in the affairs of state, in politics, in plots and counter-plots. Others that are who, more chivalrous, are willing to admit that women have as much right to act, think, and speak as men. | 103 |
| Ed Balls | The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last. | 103 |
| Edi Rama | I still paint. I love the joy that color can give to our lives and to our communities. I try to bring something of the artist in me to my politics. | 103 |
| John Major | Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot. | 103 |
| Michael Nutter | If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store. | 103 |
| Saffron Burrows | I think politics can no longer be assigned to parliamentary activity and it probably never could be. But politics with a small p and the history of trade union movement really interests me. | 103 |
| Chris Patten | 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. | 103 |
| Jimmy Durante | Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did. | 103 |
| Joe Eszterhas | And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. | 103 |
| Ralph Hall | It's kind of hard in politics to forget that you're a Democrat or a Republican and remember that you're a father and a grandfather... and that they're entitled to more than they're getting. | 103 |
| Belva Lockwood | I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere. | 103 |
| Jon Katz | Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. | 103 |
| Sir Mix-a-Lot | I follow politics in a big way, and always have since I was a kid. I've got opinions, but they're opinions on both sides - not just anti-Republican, which is a real popular thing for a rap artist to do. If you dis Republicans, nobody will get mad. I think the two-party system sucks. It's absolutely ignorant. | 103 |
| Anthony de Mello | These things will destroy the human race: politics without principle, progress without compassion, wealth without work, learning without silence, religion without fearlessness and worship without awareness. | 103 |
| James Carville | I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president. | 103 |
| John Breaux | Well, Judy, I would hope in the new year, we could start thinking about politics not like it was the Super Bowl, where you always have to have one team that wins and the other team has to be a loser. | 103 |
| John Avlon | What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. | 103 |
| Maynard Jackson | Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. | 103 |
| Mitchell Kapor | Architecture is politics. | 103 |
| Jack Johnson | My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it. | 103 |
| Jiang Zemin | Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively. | 103 |
| Thomas Jefferson | I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend. | 104 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. | 104 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. | 104 |
| Niccolo Machiavelli | Politics have no relation to morals. | 104 |
| Will Rogers | A fool and his money are soon elected. | 104 |
| Gore Vidal | Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. | 104 |
| Jeff Sessions | The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate. | 104 |
| Maria Montessori | Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war. | 104 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value. | 104 |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. | 104 |
| Arthur C. Clarke | I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. | 104 |
| Dietrich Bonhoeffer | Politics are not the task of a Christian. | 104 |
| Gerard Way | Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. | 104 |
| Harvey Fierstein | When a politician like Marco Rubio is willing to sacrifice his career defining immigration reform legislation solely to insure that gays and lesbians are denied equal protection under the law, we have to admit that we're under attack. This is not pragmatic politics at work. These are the policies of bias, exclusion and unfairness. | 104 |
| Imran Khan | But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money. | 104 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. | 104 |
| John Quincy Adams | Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. | 104 |
| Leonard Bernstein | A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future. | 104 |
| Lincoln Steffens | Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the 'gangs,' 'combines,' or political parties. | 104 |
| Newt Gingrich | I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics. | 104 |
| Oscar Levant | The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. | 104 |
| Peter Singer | The new freedom of expression brought by the Internet goes far beyond politics. People relate to each other in new ways, posing questions about how we should respond to people when all that we know about them is what we have learned through a medium that permits all kinds of anonymity and deception. | 104 |
| Pierre Trudeau | The essential ingredient of politics is timing. | 104 |
| Thomas Frank | This aesthetic quality, then, is what politics is all about. It's authenticity that separates winners from losers, good politics from bad, and he-man leader-types from consultant-directed puppet-boys. | 104 |
| Thomas P. O'Neill | You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don't get much else in that job. | 104 |
| Vilayanur S. Ramachandran | Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain. | 104 |
| Vinny Guadagnino | My political science degree is always on the back-burner. I took my LSAT, so even if I want to take the LSAT again, I know what I'm getting into. I'll keep it on the back-burner. Who knows, maybe with my popularity, I can have a career in politics with a law degree. I think it'll work out either way. | 104 |
| Fletcher Knebel | Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians. | 104 |
| Fritz Sauckel | Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. | 104 |
| Grover Cleveland | Party honesty is party expediency. | 104 |
| Hassan Rouhani | International politics is no longer a zero-sum game but a multi-dimensional arena where cooperation and competition often occur simultaneously. Gone is the age of blood feuds. World leaders are expected to lead in turning threats into opportunities. | 104 |
| Hugh Sidey | The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign. | 104 |
| Jack Dorsey | I love cities, and I love city governments in particular. But in politics it would have taken me 8 years from implementing a policy before I would get to see the feedback. With programming I could model the same policies and see the impact immediately. Technology is a far more efficient way to test. | 104 |
| Jeremy Corbyn | We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics - we are doing ideas. This is about hope. | 104 |
| Jon Meacham | A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along? | 104 |
| Lindsey Graham | President Obama chose politics over leadership. 'Hope' and 'Change' have become bait-and-switch. | 104 |
| Nick Lampson | While we face economic obstacles that challenge every decision made in Washington, decisions made merely for political gain must stop. It's time to restore civility in Congress. It's time for action where action is needed - all politics aside. | 104 |
| Paul Begala | Politics is show business for ugly people. | 104 |
| Roger Stone | A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. | 104 |
| Sydney Pollack | I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business. | 104 |
| Bidzina Ivanishvili | There is a real and evident problem of democracy in Georgia, and this was the core reason of my entrance into politics. We have no rule of law. It's absolutely absent. | 104 |
| Deval Patrick | We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. | 104 |
| Diane Paulus | In Elizabethan England or classical Athens... theater was at the center of, not culture, but society and politics and religion and civic engagement. Those things have a different audience. | 104 |
| Estelle Morris | What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again. | 104 |
| Henrique Capriles Radonski | The foreign policy of this government is driven by politics - to extend a revolution worldwide. My objective with regards to foreign relations is to benefit all Venezuelans. | 104 |
| Jackie Speier | My life experiences have helped me to be less fearful. In politics, that has allowed me to take on issues sooner rather than later. | 104 |
| Kate Clinton | What goes for sex goes double for politics. | 104 |
| Randy Bachman | I have chosen to keep my personal life separate from my music, as the two are exclusive from each other, and I want to remain that way. I'll talk music, production, writing songs, touring with anyone but keep religion, politics and world affairs off the table, as my expertise is in songs and music. | 104 |
| Richard Powers | This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. | 104 |
| Sandy Koufax | The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. | 104 |
| Tsai Ing-wen | Gender used to be a barrier for women to overcome if they wanted to be in politics, but today in Taiwan the situation is somewhat different. I think there is even a preference for a woman candidate, and in local elections, we have seen that younger, better-educated female candidates are overwhelmingly preferred by the voters. | 104 |
| Atifete Jahjaga | The power of women in the politics is a soft power. It is a positive change that our country and other countries in the region... are making by giving a chance to women. | 104 |
| John Major | The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare. | 104 |
| Julian Bond | There is a thin line between politics and theatricals. | 104 |
| Lennart Meri | History is more interesting than politics. | 104 |
| Rob Walton | The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice. | 104 |
| Adam Michnik | Politics and ethics belong to different worlds. | 104 |
| Cal Thomas | America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love. | 104 |
| Jim Leach | Our culture is more shaped by the arts and humanities than it often is by politics. | 104 |
| John Schneider | People have come to me for my opinion since 'October Baby.' But, hey, look, I'm an actor who is very fortunate to be in a movie that's making wonderful noise, and hopefully helping parents and children to be a little closer. Leave me alone. I'm not talking about politics. I'm just trying to have a conversation with my own kids. | 104 |
| Lord Salisbury | Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools. | 104 |
| Rainer Werner Fassbinder | I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be. | 104 |
| Jonathan Maberry | 'V-Wars' is a head-on collision of real-world science, terrorism, special forces action, ethics, politics and an exploration of what defines us as human. | 104 |
| James Reston | All politics are based on the indifference of the majority. | 104 |
| Joseph Chamberlain | In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight. | 104 |
| Aristotle | Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. | 105 |
| H. L. Mencken | In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. | 105 |
| Edmund Burke | When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle. | 105 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | In politics stupidity is not a handicap. | 105 |
| Imelda Marcos | Ferdinand was a gold trader. He was a lawyer for mining companies. When he entered politics in l949, he had tons and tons of gold. When Bill Gates was a college dropout, Ferdinand already possessed billions of dollars and tons of gold. It wasn't stolen. | 105 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. | 105 |
| Dante Alighieri | The secret of getting things done is to act! | 105 |
| Gore Vidal | Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. | 105 |
| Herbert Hoover | When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. | 105 |
| Milton Friedman | If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. | 105 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. | 105 |
| Beck | As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate. | 105 |
| Bill Nye | NASA is an engine of innovation and inspiration as well as the world's premier space exploration agency, and we are well served by politicians working to keep it that way, instead of turning it into a mere jobs program, or worse, cutting its budget. | 105 |
| Daniel Patrick Moynihan | The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. | 105 |
| Daniel Webster | Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. | 105 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | One baby is a patient baby, and waits indefinitely until its mother is ready to feed it. The other baby is an impatient baby and cries lustily, screams and kicks and makes everybody unpleasant until it is fed. Well, we know perfectly well which baby is attended to first. That is the whole history of politics. | 105 |
| Fidel Castro | The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong. | 105 |
| Frances O'Grady | The TUC's new slogan 'a future that works' sets a profound challenge. Austerity and rapid deficit reduction is failing in its own terms, but even at its best it is short-sighted, muddle-through politics with no vision of a new economic model. | 105 |
| Francois Hollande | I could have made a fortune in cheeseburgers, but I finally chose politics. | 105 |
| Justin Trudeau | I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching. | 105 |
| Karl Rove | If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself. | 105 |
| Lewis Black | You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work. | 105 |
| Miroslav Volf | There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics. | 105 |
| Olympia Snowe | Unfortunately, money in politics is an insidious thing - and a loophole in our campaign finance system was taken advantage of with money going to existing or new 527 groups with the sole purpose of influencing the election. | 105 |
| Paul Weyrich | Politics aside, it will be hard for any new liberal radio network to outdo the professionalism of NPR. | 105 |
| Peggy Noonan | Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen. | 105 |
| Rebecca MacKinnon | The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend for nearly everything, including our politics - is one of the most insidious threats to democracy in the Internet age. | 105 |
| Recep Tayyip Erdogan | As a politician who cherishes religious conviction in his personal sphere, but regards politics as a domain belonging outside religion, I believe that this view is seriously flawed. | 105 |
| Ross Perot | The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river. | 105 |
| Saul Alinsky | Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. | 105 |
| Ed Rendell | I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both. | 105 |
| Hassan Rouhani | In a world where global politics is no longer a zero-sum game, it is - or should be - counterintuitive to pursue one's interests without considering the interests of others. | 105 |
| Kenneth Koch | Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers. | 105 |
| Rebel Wilson | I was planning to go into law or politics. I was well known for my public speaking. I went to an all-girl boarding school with uniforms. It was very posh for someone like me who came from a world where my parents showed beagles and sold dog products out of a yellow caravan. | 105 |
| Bharati Mukherjee | Bengalis love to celebrate their language, their culture, their politics, their fierce attachment to a city that has been famously dying for more than a century. They resent with equal ferocity the reflex stereotyping that labels any civic dysfunction anywhere in the world 'another Calcutta.' | 105 |
| Chris Benz | I always like a woman in power in politics. I think they're pretty inspirational in terms of looks to begin with. It's very calculated. | 105 |
| Chris Jordan | There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback. | 105 |
| Ed Miliband | The new generation of Labour is different. Different attitudes, different ideas, different ways of doing politics. | 105 |
| Gerhard Schroder | I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. | 105 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. | It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. | 105 |
| John Bercow | Possibly the fact that I was physically quite feeble, a relatively short little fellow, attracted me to that idea of a very authoritative and aggressive version of Conservative politics. | 105 |
| Jose Mujica | A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn't go into politics. | 105 |
| Stephen Breyer | At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. | 105 |
| T. B. Joshua | There's nothing wrong in men of God going into politics. It will help them to do what is right. | 105 |
| Thomas E. Mann | In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties. | 105 |
| Andrzej Wajda | We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics. | 105 |
| Atifete Jahjaga | Democracy is a revelation, but it's complicated. There are elections to hold, politics to create, rights to assert, grievances to settle and institutions to build. To many, it's exhilarating. For others, it can be disappointing when it turns out that democracy doesn't immediately make life better. | 105 |
| Bill Moyers | Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism. | 105 |
| Douglas Sirk | In the 19th century, you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is. | 105 |
| Johann Lamont | There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is. | 105 |
| Mario Puzo | Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. | 105 |
| Adam Michnik | Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize. | 105 |
| Simon Winchester | We associate the North Atlantic with cod. The motto of Newfoundland used to be 'In cod we trust.' It was a joke, but it was essentially true. But there is no cod anymore. And that's extraordinary. It's all because of either greed or politics - Canadian politics. | 105 |
| Spiro T. Agnew | Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. | 105 |
| James Mark Baldwin | All along we find that social life - religion, politics, art - reflects the stages reached in the development of the knowledge of self; it shows the social uses made of this knowledge. | 105 |
| Mark Leibovich | To cover politics in Washington allows you to live in the very, very wide gap between what the actual truth is, and how people are trying to manipulate the truth. They speak in the language of spin, obsequiousness, obfuscation. The meta of politics is just this endless source of material that can shed light on the psychology of the process. | 105 |
| John Van Hamersveld | My life in Hollywood surrounded by celebrities became a point of view for me - sports, fashion, music, film, arts, and politics as a media play. | 105 |
| John Jay Chapman | Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. | 105 |
| Bill Bradley | Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball. | 106 |
| Cate Blanchett | There are very few issues that lie specifically in one region now. Polio in Syria doesn't affect Syria alone. I don't think any issue can ever be isolated into local politics these days, because we all know too much. | 106 |
| Charles Kennedy | Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable. | 106 |
| David Lloyd George | What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. | 106 |
| Elliott Abrams | The accession to power in Pyongyang of Kim Jong Un, son of Kim Jong Il and grandson of Kim Il Sung, is a unique achievement in world politics. | 106 |
| Iain Banks | In so much of politics you're not allowed to disagree with what's been agreed. | 106 |
| Nate Silver | First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views. | 106 |
| Newt Gingrich | I discourage a cult of personality. | 106 |
| Pankaj Mishra | As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion. | 106 |
| Paul Johnson | Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics. | 106 |
| Paul Wellstone | It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics. | 106 |
| Ralph Nader | I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second.' | 106 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. | 106 |
| Shirley Chisholm | At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. | 106 |
| Stephen Kinzer | Adroit geo-strategists take new realities into account as they try to imagine how global politics will unfold. In the foreign policy business, however, inertia is a powerful force and 'adroit' a little-known concept. | 106 |
| Talib Kweli | Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction. | 106 |
| Ted Cruz | One of biggest lies in politics is the lie that Republicans are the party of big business. Big business does great with big government. Big business is very happy to climb in bed with big government. Republicans are and should be the party of small business and of entrepreneurs. | 106 |
| Tony Benn | I've got four lovely children, ten lovely grandchildren, and I left parliament to devote more time to politics, and I think that what is really going on in Britain is a growing sense of alienation. People don't feel anyone listens to them. | 106 |
| Yingluck Shinawatra | In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country. | 106 |
| Ann Richards | I just feel like I'm a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics. | 106 |
| August Wilson | All art is political in the sense that it serves someone's politics. | 106 |
| Brian Mulroney | In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. | 106 |
| Claire Tomalin | When I wrote about Mary Wollstonecraft, I found that here she was, in the late 18th century, going to work for the 'Analytical Review.' What was the 'Analytical Review?' It was a magazine that dealt with politics and literature. | 106 |
| Hamilton Jordan | The battle in American politics used to be for the middle. Now, it's all about the building and the intensity of support on the far left and far right wings of both parties. And we have forgotten about the people here in the middle. | 106 |
| Joan Baez | We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood. | 106 |
| Kimi Raikkonen | In F1 too many things overshadow the racing. There is too much politics. | 106 |
| Mark Helprin | The arts community is generally dominated by liberals because if you are concerned mainly with painting or sculpture, you don't have time to study how the world works. And if you have no understanding of economics, strategy, history and politics, then naturally you would be a liberal. | 106 |
| Maya Lin | I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. | 106 |
| Ricardo Montalban | Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country. | 106 |
| Rick Perlstein | My politics of optimism and hope still casts its lot with the Democrats - in the optimistic hope that the dying embers of its status as the party of our better angels, one that took risks for social justice, can still be fanned into a flame. But I'm an old man, born in 1969. | 106 |
| Todd Gitlin | I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties. | 106 |
| Tom Araya | I follow politics, but I don't like to discuss it. | 106 |
| Tony Snow | Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion. | 106 |
| Billy Bragg | I'm still batting away on my politics for the Labour Party. I'm much further to the left of them than I used to be, but that's because they've moved, not me. | 106 |
| Bob Geldof | It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people. | 106 |
| Godfrey Reggio | It's not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. It's that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. | 106 |
| Hans Eysenck | Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts. | 106 |
| Max Cannon | Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague. | 106 |
| Bob Brown | I am aware that one should always make room for renewal in politics. A democracy is the healthier for the turnover of the depth of talent there is in its community. | 106 |
| Gilbert Highet | What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? | 106 |
| John Boyle O'Reilly | Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. | 106 |
| Konrad Adenauer | The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt. | 106 |
| Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar II | I think it eminently proper that a president should retire from active politics, and equally proper that he should be able to live in quiet independence. | 106 |
| Mark Hoppus | If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots. | 106 |
| Michael Nutter | Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport. | 106 |
| Aaron Levie | I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely. | 106 |
| Daniel Hannan | You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. | 106 |
| Maggie Gallagher | When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. | 106 |
| Millicent Fawcett | If, however, the success of a politician is to be measured by the degree in which he is able personally to influence the course of politics, and attach to himself a school of political thought, then Mr. Mill, in the best meaning of the words, has succeeded. | 106 |
| Stanley Baldwin | You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain. | 106 |
| Robin Williams | People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. | 107 |
| Thomas Sowell | All the political angst and moral melodrama about getting 'the rich' to pay 'their fair share' is part of a big charade. This is not about economics, it is about politics. | 107 |
| Angela Merkel | That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution. | 107 |
| Benazir Bhutto | As a woman leader, I thought I brought a different kind of leadership. I was interested in women's issues, in bringing down the population growth rate... as a woman, I entered politics with an additional dimension - that of a mother. | 107 |
| Bobby Scott | We can play politics, or we can reduce crime. | 107 |
| Edward Kennedy | Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. | 107 |
| Francis Parker Yockey | Politics is activity in relation to power. | 107 |
| Jackie Robinson | I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. | 107 |
| John Lewis | When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. | 107 |
| Kerry Washington | You may not be thinking about politics, but politics is thinking about you. | 107 |
| Kin Hubbard | We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate. | 107 |
| Max Weber | Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state. | 107 |
| N. T. Wright | From where many of us in the U.K. sit, American politics is hopelessly polarized. All kinds of issues get bundled up into two great heaps. The rest of the world, today and across the centuries, simply doesn't see things in this horribly oversimplified way. | 107 |
| Neil Postman | TV serves us most usefully when presenting junk-entertainment; it serves us most ill when it co-opts serious modes of discourse - news, politics, science, education, commerce, religion. | 107 |
| Pankaj Mishra | The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. | 107 |
| Peggy Noonan | Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything. | 107 |
| Robert Peel | There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. | 107 |
| Sachin Tendulkar | I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket. | 107 |
| William Hague | When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. | 107 |
| C. Northcote Parkinson | In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want. | 107 |
| David Miliband | You have to believe that it's through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change. | 107 |
| Ha-Joon Chang | What free-market economists are not telling us is that the politics they want to get rid of are none other than those of democracy itself. When they say we need to insulate economic policies from politics, they are in effect advocating the castration of democracy. | 107 |
| Lalu Prasad Yadav | In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies. | 107 |
| Mikhail Kalashnikov | The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics. | 107 |
| Arthur Koestler | Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means. | 107 |
| Bob Ehrlich | Politics is a contest among people of diverse backgrounds and philosophies, advocating different solutions to common problems. The system only works when principled, energetic people participate. | 107 |
| James Nesbitt | Funnily enough, Northern Ireland is a great example of where politics can win over conflict. The decision to down arms and follow a political path would have been unthinkable once. It shows just what is possible. | 107 |
| Armstrong Williams | In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. | 107 |
| Michael Steele | My view on politics is much more grassroots oriented; it's not old boy network oriented, so I tend to, you know, come at it a little bit stronger, a little bit more street-wise, if you will. That's rubbed some feathers the wrong way. | 107 |
| Jerry Springer | To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different. | 107 |
| Joe Green | When all is said and done and the e-book is written about politics and the Internet, it is not going to be about the presidential election. It will be about the smaller elections in aggregate that have a huge effect on people's lives. | 107 |
| John Avlon | Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits. | 107 |
| Charles de Gaulle | In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant. | 108 |
| George Orwell | In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. | 108 |
| Stephen Bannon | I could not think higher of Governor Palin. She is a force of nature and has inspired a generation of women to really get actively involved in politics and, more importantly, take their culture back and take their country back. | 108 |
| Milton Friedman | Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned. | 108 |
| Anita Roddick | Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, who's going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and it's more powerful than religion. So it's going to have to be the vigilante consumer. | 108 |
| Charles Kennedy | The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected. | 108 |
| Clare Boothe Luce | The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. | 108 |
| David Lloyd George | A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. | 108 |
| Dee Dee Myers | Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible. | 108 |
| Deng Xiaoping | The United States brags about its political system, but the President says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else at midterm and something else when he leaves. | 108 |
| Ed Koch | There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics. | 108 |
| Enrique Pena Nieto | U.S. politicians are increasingly recognizing the relevance of the Hispanic vote in U.S. politics. | 108 |
| Freeman Dyson | Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science. | 108 |
| Laura Bush | Politics is a people business. I like people. | 108 |
| Max Weber | Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics. | 108 |
| Molly Ivins | Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. | 108 |
| Norm MacDonald | Compared to politics, I think sports is funnier, because it's inconsequential. And politics can be real important and all that. The more pointless something is, the funnier it is, you know? And the more grave or important things are... You know, some comedians can get this disease where they get serious all the time. | 108 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | It is a measure of the framers' fear that a passing majority might find it expedient to compromise 4th Amendment values that these values were embodied in the Constitution itself. | 108 |
| Shirley Temple | When you're a performer, you have to please a large audience. And when you're in politics, you have to please a large audience, too. | 108 |
| Stephen Leacock | It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. | 108 |
| Thurgood Marshall | Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds. | 108 |
| Vince Cable | And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery. | 108 |
| William Howard Taft | I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. | 108 |
| Christine Quinn | Bike lanes - I put that now in the category of things you shouldn't discuss at dinner parties, right? It used to be money and politics and religion. Now, in New York, you should add bike lanes. | 108 |
| Douglas Wilder | My experience politically has always been that one-word definition of politics: money. Keep your eye on the buck. And that tells you where the American people are going to be. | 108 |
| Eric Alterman | Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines. | 108 |
| Jane Fonda | It's about time we make the well-being of our young people more important than ideology and politics. As a country, we benefit from investing in their future by investing in teen pregnancy prevention. | 108 |
| Pranab Mukherjee | I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me. | 108 |
| Richard Holbrooke | Pakistani politics is complicated, and I think it's not something a foreigner can easily assimilate and understand. | 108 |
| Steve Chabot | Politics is a contact sport. | 108 |
| Christy Romano | And after I make a lot of money, I'll be able to afford running for office. | 108 |
| John Morley | You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. | 108 |
| John Avlon | First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals. | 108 |
| Johnny Isakson | You know they say the most dangerous person of the world is a member of the United States Congress just home from a three-day fact-finding trip. | 108 |
| Barack Obama | In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? | 109 |
| George W. Bush | If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. | 109 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. | 109 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. | 109 |
| Brian Wilson | Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business. | 109 |
| Donna Brazile | I think people involved in politics make good actors. Acting and politics both involve fooling people. People like being fooled by actors. When you get right down to it, they probably like being fooled by politicians even more. A skillful actor will make you think, but a skillful politician will make you never have to think. | 109 |
| Jonathan Haidt | Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. | 109 |
| Kamala Harris | I always start my campaigns early, and I run hard. Maybe it comes from the rough-and-tumble world of San Francisco politics, where it's not even a contact sport - it's a blood sport. This is how I am as a candidate. This is how I run campaigns. | 109 |
| Malcolm Forbes | Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business. | 109 |
| Max Weber | Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. | 109 |
| Mikhail Gorbachev | I paid too heavy a price for perestroika. | 109 |
| Reinhold Niebuhr | The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. | 109 |
| Theodore Parker | Politics is the science of urgencies. | 109 |
| Vijay Mallya | I think it is better when people with their own businesses and means of income join politics as there is some degree of honesty and integrity. | 109 |
| Zach Galifianakis | Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There's just too much money. | 109 |
| Barry Eisler | There's an awful lot of corruption in Japanese business and politics, corruption of the sort that can make for great setting for a spy story. | 109 |
| Dario Fo | Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics. | 109 |
| Drew Brees | I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others. | 109 |
| Jeremy Corbyn | I do think the public want to see politicians acting in a different way. What's brought young people into our campaign is that they were written off by political parties but they had never written off politics, and what we have is a huge number of young people, very enthusiastic and brimming with ideas. Those ideas have got to be heard. | 109 |
| Jerry Lewis | I have some very personal feelings about politics, but I don't get into it because I do comedy already. | 109 |
| Jim Hightower | When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. | 109 |
| Johnny Vegas | I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion. | 109 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.' | 109 |
| Richard Flanagan | Through the 1990s, the fracturing of Tasmanian Aboriginal politics was given impetus by the ongoing corruption of a number of black organisations started under federal government programmes, with large amounts of public money being lost. | 109 |
| Tony Snow | Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. | 109 |
| William Gilbert | I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all. | 109 |
| Mike Quigley | Ironically enough, why I got into politics is because I came to the conclusion that if you wanted to save the world, which in my mind was through the environment, those elected officials seemed to be the ones who made a lot of the important decisions, if not the most important decisions. | 109 |
| James Buchan | We read too much Shakespeare at school, and view our parliamentary politics as dynastic drama, in which an impatient crown prince frets at his long subordination and begins to scheme for the throne he knows he merits, was promised and has earned. | 109 |
| John F. Kerry | Young people have so much more power than they tend to think to be able to affect politics. And if people will organize and get involved and go out and knock on doors and hand out leaflets and make a change, then they can determine the future. | 109 |
| Ronald Reagan | It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first. | 110 |
| Thomas Sowell | If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. | 110 |
| Will Rogers | I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. | 110 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich. | 110 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | War is the continuation of politics by other means. | 110 |
| Fareed Zakaria | Politics and power is a realm of relative influence. | 110 |
| Gabriel Iglesias | I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble. | 110 |
| George MacDonald | It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen. | 110 |
| Grover Norquist | Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone. | 110 |
| Karen DeCrow | First lady has been a thankless position. Eleanor Roosevelt was brilliant and had strong views. She was criticized for her politics and for her appearance. Mrs. Roosevelt was attacked for being too involved in politics. Bess Truman was criticized for being uninvolved in politics. | 110 |
| Larry Flynt | Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation. | 110 |
| Linus Torvalds | I'm sitting in my home office wearing a bathrobe. The same way I'm not going to start wearing ties, I'm also not going to buy into the fake politeness, the lying, the office politics and backstabbing, the passive aggressiveness, and the buzzwords. | 110 |
| Nancy Pelosi | Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it. | 110 |
| Newt Gingrich | Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. | 110 |
| Nick Clegg | Politics is a highly tribal business. | 110 |
| Park Geun-hye | I believe that it is an unchanging value of democracy that ends cannot justify the means in politics. | 110 |
| Ratan Tata | I will certainly not join politics. I would like to be remembered as a clean businessman who has not partaken in any twists and turns beneath the surface, and one who has been reasonably successful. | 110 |
| Rush Limbaugh | One of the reasons MSNBC is plummeting is that I, not long ago, refused to play any content from them. I figured, why? I mean, it's genuine depraved partisan politics insanity, genuine extremist radical ignoramuses on that network. | 110 |
| William E. Gladstone | Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. | 110 |
| Zach Galifianakis | We talked about politics constantly in my family growing up in North Carolina. There were always debates. Being of Greek background, it's in our blood to drink coffee and talk politics. | 110 |
| Lindsey Graham | Look how many millions of people are underemployed or have lost their jobs. The last thing I'm going to do is play politics with their future. | 110 |
| Ed Miliband | Freedom and opportunity are precious gifts and the purpose of our politics is to expand them, for all our people. | 110 |
| Jon Huntsman, Jr. | Politics is a lot of serendipity. You're in the right place and the right time and you've got the right message, and it either connects for you or, or it doesn't. | 110 |
| Jose Mujica | I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. | 110 |
| Ma Jian | After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors. | 110 |
| Abba Eban | It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say. | 110 |
| Prince | Most people don't want to talk about politics and religion. They say, 'Let's talk about something else.' | 111 |
| Thomas Sowell | The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. | 111 |
| Vladimir Lenin | There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. | 111 |
| Angela Davis | As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. | 111 |
| Jimmy Carter | Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future. | 111 |
| Ai Weiwei | To work in architecture you are so much involved with society, with politics, with bureaucrats. It's a very complicated process to do large projects. You start to see the society, how it functions, how it works. Then you have a lot of criticism about how it works. | 111 |
| Albert Pike | A war for a great principle ennobles a nation. | 111 |
| Christopher Lasch | Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. | 111 |
| Ed Koch | If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. | 111 |
| Frank Zappa | Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. | 111 |
| Henry Adams | He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers. | 111 |
| Li Keqiang | Many people in the world believe that in the 21st century, the Asia-Pacific - Asia in particular - will play a more important role in global economy and politics and that Asia will become an important engine for the world economy. | 111 |
| Michael Bloomberg | The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the big issues of the day are not being addressed, leaving our future in jeopardy. | 111 |
| Nicholas Kristof | Dr. Ben Carson has the most moving personal narrative in modern presidential politics. His mother, one of 24 children, had only a third-grade education. She was married at age 13, bore Ben and his brother, and then raised the boys as an impoverished single mother in Detroit. As a young boy, Carson was a terrible student. | 111 |
| Oliver Stone | I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. | 111 |
| Park Geun-hye | I have no child to inherit my properties. You, the people, are my only family, and to make you happy is the reason I do politics. | 111 |
| Paul Wellstone | A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. | 111 |
| Robert Reich | The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. | 111 |
| Sarah Palin | The lesson of the last year is this: foreign policy can't be managed through the politics of personality, and our President would do well to take note of an observation John F. Kennedy made once he was in office - that all of the world's problems aren't his predecessor's fault. | 111 |
| Ann Richards | I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. | 111 |
| George C. Wallace | After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain. | 111 |
| Matt Taibbi | In modern American politics, being the right kind of ignorant and entertainingly crazy is like having a big right hand in boxing; you've always got a puncher's chance. | 111 |
| Sherry Turkle | Thumbs up or thumbs down on a website is not a conversation. The danger is you get into a habit of mind where politics means giving a thumbs up or thumbs down to a website. The world is a much more complex place. | 111 |
| Jeane Kirkpatrick | I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. | 111 |
| Joseph Stiglitz | Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently. | 111 |
| John Jay Chapman | The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought. | 111 |
| Charles de Gaulle | In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. | 112 |
| Margaret Thatcher | One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex. | 112 |
| Richard M. Nixon | Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. | 112 |
| Woodrow Wilson | A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. | 112 |
| Milton Friedman | Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. | 112 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. | 112 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others. | 112 |
| Barry Goldwater | I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. | 112 |
| Bernard Baruch | Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing. | 112 |
| Caroline Kennedy | Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work. | 112 |
| Harold Wilson | A week is a long time in politics. | 112 |
| John Hughes | It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. | 112 |
| Mitch McConnell | Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish. | 112 |
| Molly Ivins | You can't ignore politics, no matter how much you'd like to. | 112 |
| Sarah Palin | Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. | 112 |
| T. D. Jakes | I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground. | 112 |
| Wilfrid Laurier | For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business. | 112 |
| Zadie Smith | Young people understand the world. They should be listened to on matters of politics and world organization. But they know nothing of their own lives. | 112 |
| A. N. Wilson | I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher. | 112 |
| Bob Riley | For too long, we have focused on our differences - in our politics and backgrounds, in our race and beliefs - rather than cherishing the unity and pride that binds us together. | 112 |
| Alexander Hamilton | In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. | 113 |
| Donald Trump | One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. | 113 |
| Harry S Truman | All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. | 113 |
| Nigel Farage | I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up. | 113 |
| Mao Zedong | There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. | 113 |
| Alan Greenspan | The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with. | 113 |
| Ani DiFranco | A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. | 113 |
| Corazon Aquino | I know my limitations, and I don't like politics. I was only involved because of my husband. | 113 |
| E. B. White | Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. | 113 |
| Frank Luntz | There's a problem with political polling in that you have so much pressure to do what your client wants you to do and say what your client wants you to say. I've never felt that pressure. I am independent of the political parties. | 113 |
| Kathryn Bigelow | The journey for women, no matter what venue it is - politics, business, film - it's, it's a long journey. | 113 |
| Lester B. Pearson | Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. | 113 |
| Margaret Fuller | Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. | 113 |
| Paul Weller | I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough. | 113 |
| Rahul Gandhi | I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart. | 113 |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay | Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. | 113 |
| Walter Savage Landor | In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always. | 113 |
| William Howard Taft | We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement. | 113 |
| Daphne Guinness | We need a government, not politics. Because there's too much politics. Of course there should be debate. But there seems to be so much pettiness and not enough good faith. It is civilized to agree to disagree, and this idea is slowly disintegrating. The great statesmen of the past knew this, and I think it helps drive civilization. | 113 |
| Donella Meadows | Every policy is shaped by two forces: background analysis and foreground politics. The political forces are loud, self-serving and, in the case of energy policy, well known. | 113 |
| Richard Lamm | Politics is a love-hate relationship. I sure know that. | 113 |
| Sargent Shriver | Does politics have to be injected into everything? | 113 |
| Jeff Greenfield | More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy. | 113 |
| John Jay Chapman | Politics is organized hatred, that is unity. | 113 |
| Pope Francis | Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. | 114 |
| Gore Vidal | Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. | 114 |
| Caroline Kennedy | Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics. | 114 |
| Christopher Lasch | The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. | 114 |
| Eliot Spitzer | In the melting pot that is America, inclusive trumps exclusive. Whether it's single women, young adults, or minorities, alienating the rapidly growing voting blocs is not smart politics. | 114 |
| Max Weber | The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. | 114 |
| Myles Munroe | The Kingdom is the love of God prevailing in politics, in business, in government, in media. It is all the impact of the laws of God creating a social environment where the strong help the weak, where those who have give to those who don't. It's a society where relationships are built on love. | 114 |
| Paul Wellstone | Politics is not about power. | 114 |
| Pierce Brosnan | You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father. | 114 |
| Rutherford B. Hayes | It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. | 114 |
| Serj Tankian | My two interests are spirituality and politics. I would mesh them in some way; maybe try to figure out the politics of spirituality, or the spirituality of politics. Or maybe come up with this really crazy naive solution for the end of civilization. | 114 |
| Seth Godin | And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change politics, that can align large numbers of people. Not because you force them to do something against their will. But because they wanted to connect. | 114 |
| Shirley Temple | Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics. | 114 |
| Damon Albarn | I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics. | 114 |
| Doug Larson | Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. | 114 |
| James Surowiecki | Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller. | 114 |
| Kate Millett | Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being. | 114 |
| Stacy Schiff | Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love. | 114 |
| Muqtada al Sadr | Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America. | 114 |
| Anna Lindh | Globalisation has made us more vulnerable. It creates a world without borders, and makes us painfully aware of the limitations of our present instruments, and of politics, to meet its challenges. | 114 |
| Abraham Lincoln | The ballot is stronger than the bullet. | 115 |
| Dr. Seuss | I stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I'll probably... drop writing children's books and become a political cartoonist again. | 115 |
| Will Rogers | Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. | 115 |
| Bill Maher | Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable. | 115 |
| Brad Henry | There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization. | 115 |
| Chris Hadfield | Russians aren't perfect. Their politics are messed up, and they keep going through self-defeating economic cycles. But I have a lot of respect for Russia, and a lot of love for Russians. | 115 |
| George Soros | Law has become a business. Health care has become a business. Unfortunately, politics has also become a business. That really undermines society. | 115 |
| Lord Acton | The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future. | 115 |
| Max Weber | Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he shall not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or too base for what he wants to offer. | 115 |
| Nate Silver | I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics. | 115 |
| Samuel L. Jackson | I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple. | 115 |
| William Howard Taft | Politics makes me sick. | 115 |
| Sean Parker | At the end of the day, money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media. | 115 |
| Shailene Woodley | Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next. | 115 |
| Dick Durbin | Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. | 115 |
| Noam Chomsky | If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. | 116 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Politics is not an exact science. | 116 |
| Aneurin Bevan | Politics is a blood sport. | 116 |
| Angela Merkel | Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. | 116 |
| Clare Boothe Luce | In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected. | 116 |
| Eric Liu | We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. | 116 |
| Pat Riley | Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure. | 116 |
| Peter Steele | I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth. | 116 |
| Phil Robertson | If I were in politics, and if you ever get me in the White House, trust me, there's a big change coming. What happened to America? We lost our roots. | 116 |
| Stendhal | Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. | 116 |
| Tina Brown | Economics has become as riveting as politics. | 116 |
| William J. Clinton | When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation. | 116 |
| Grover Cleveland | Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust. | 116 |
| J. C. Watts | I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. | 116 |
| Jim Hightower | Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. | 116 |
| Malcolm Turnbull | The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. | 116 |
| Steve Vai | As far as Deep Purple goes, I mean, they're iconic. Their contribution is unquantifiable, and as far as the politics involved in things like awards, you know, I don't think anything, because I know what they mean to me, and I know what they mean to the people who like them. Awards are very politically based. | 116 |
| Jeff Rich | Those who stand for nothing fall for anything. | 116 |
| Mao Zedong | Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. | 117 |
| Ben Okri | Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible. | 117 |
| Condoleezza Rice | I didn't run for student council president. I don't see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I'm not particularly fond of politics. | 117 |
| David Blunkett | Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance. | 117 |
| E. L. Doctorow | Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society. | 117 |
| Garth Brooks | In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion. | 117 |
| H. Rap Brown | The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other. | 117 |
| Marquis de Lafayette | Our articles of confederation ought to be revised and measures immediately taken to invigorate the Continental Union. Depend upon it: there lies the danger for America. This last stroke is wanting, and unless the states be strongly bound to each other, we have to fear from British and, indeed, from European politics. | 117 |
| Wendell Phillips | Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. | 117 |
| Chris Christie | They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics, to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership, we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it. | 117 |
| John O'Donohue | Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure. | 117 |
| Leo Rosten | A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. | 117 |
| Matt Damon | The values that I have are the values I was raised with, from where I'm from, which is a middle-class place. So that informs everything about me, my politics and all that stuff. I mean, politically, I vote against my own self-interest at every election. I actively ask these people to raise my taxes. | 117 |
| Bill Vaughan | The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. | 117 |
| John Major | The sight of allegedly sophisticated politicians parroting complete tripe trivialises and demeans government and it has to be stopped. It's played a significant part in public disillusionment with politics and has led to the absurd situation where more people vote for 'Strictly Come Dancing' than voted in the general election. | 117 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. | 118 |
| Colin Powell | Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff. | 118 |
| Harry S Truman | A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. | 118 |
| Barry Goldwater | If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. | 118 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. | 118 |
| Iggy Pop | If you give a good performance, something that gets some feeling across to people, that's such a rare gift. It's underestimated at this point in history, when the music biz is inevitably turning into a kind of politics. | 118 |
| Sean Combs | Music is the most powerful form of communication in the world. It brings us all together. Even religion separates us, but a hit record unites us across religious beliefs, race, politics. | 118 |
| Tina Brown | It's as if inside the White House the belief in Obama's inspirational charisma is still such that every time the ugliness of brute politics intrudes, it's a startling revelation. | 118 |
| Tom Peters | Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. | 118 |
| Amitabh Bachchan | I did not resign from politics because of Bofors. I resigned because I do not know how to play petty politics. I did not know back then and I don't know now either. | 118 |
| Chris Christie | I don't compromise my principles for politics. | 118 |
| Ahmed Chalabi | Sectarian politics gets votes in Iraq. But sectarian government fails in Iraq. | 118 |
| Groucho Marx | Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does. | 119 |
| Lin-Manuel Miranda | We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. | 119 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. | 119 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Politics is the art of the possible. | 119 |
| Arundhati Roy | The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. | 119 |
| Chris Kyle | I am not a fan of politics. | 119 |
| Hubert H. Humphrey | To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. | 119 |
| Reza Aslan | Literature offers not just a window into the culture of diverse regions, but also the society, the politics; it's the only place where we can keep track of ideas. | 119 |
| John W. Gardner | For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. | 119 |
| Tariq Ramadan | National politics and elections are dominated by emotions, by lack of self-confidence, by fear of the other, by insecurity, by infection of the body politic by the virus of victimhood. | 119 |
| Charles Bukowski | You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. | 120 |
| Arundhati Roy | You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. | 120 |
| Daniel J. Boorstin | As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. | 120 |
| Henry Cabot Lodge | We would not have our politics distracted and embittered by the dissensions of other lands. | 120 |
| Theresa May | I've always championed women in politics. We just get stuck in; politics isn't a game. The decisions we make affect people's lives, and that is something we must all keep to the forefront of our minds. | 120 |
| Mithun Chakraborty | I'm not into politics. I have received offers to enter politics, but I have not been tempted so far. I can't say about the future. | 120 |
| Bernie Sanders | At its worst, Washington is a place where name-calling partisan politics too often trumps policy. | 121 |
| Henry A. Kissinger | Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. | 121 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics. | 121 |
| Booker T. Washington | At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. | 121 |
| Calvin Coolidge | We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. | 121 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Politics is the art of the next best. | 121 |
| B. R. Ambedkar | Every man who repeats the dogma of Mill that one country is no fit to rule another country must admit that one class is not fit to rule another class. | 121 |
| Benazir Bhutto | My father was the Prime Minister of Pakistan. My grandfather had been in politics, too; however, my own inclination was for a job other than politics. I wanted to be a diplomat, perhaps do some journalism - certainly not politics. | 121 |
| Bobby Seale | Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. | 121 |
| Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Nigerian politics has been, since the military dictatorships, largely non-ideological. Rather than a battle of ideas, it is about who can pump in the most money and buy the most access. | 121 |
| Clare Boothe Luce | They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men. | 121 |
| James Russell Lowell | Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. | 121 |
| Louis D. Brandeis | The most important political office is that of the private citizen. | 121 |
| Paul Valery | Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. | 121 |
| Ralph Nader | Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you. | 121 |
| Sarah Palin | In politics there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers, and then there are those like John McCain who use their careers to promote change. | 121 |
| Mario Balotelli | I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote? | 121 |
| Mohsin Hamid | I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing. | 121 |
| John F. Kennedy | In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. | 122 |
| Thomas Paine | 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death. | 122 |
| John Adams | I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. | 122 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means. | 122 |
| Christian Nestell Bovee | In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. | 122 |
| Condoleezza Rice | One thing that education can do is it can provide us with an opportunity to understand one another better, and so while I've spent a lot of my time in the world of politics, I've always felt that it is really not politics that will solve this for us. | 122 |
| George Jean Nathan | Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. | 122 |
| George Will | Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose. | 122 |
| Nathan Myhrvold | In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely. | 122 |
| Noel Gallagher | To be quite honest, John Lennon had questionable politics. There was a flip side. He was all peace and love, but he was a very violent character. | 122 |
| Simon Cowell | I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here. | 122 |
| Steven Seagal | I've always tried to avoid politics because most politicians that I know are quite dirty in terms of human dignity, ethics and morals. | 122 |
| Chris Christie | Everyone wants to demagogue everyone else. That may be good politics, but it's awful policy. | 122 |
| Angela Davis | It's true that it's within the realm of cultural politics that young people tend to work through political issues, which I think is good, although it's not going to solve the problems. | 123 |
| Herbert Hoover | Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. | 123 |
| Otto von Bismarck | The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. | 123 |
| Adlai E. Stevenson | The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process. | 123 |
| Angela Merkel | Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are. | 123 |
| Arthur Miller | Without alienation, there can be no politics. | 123 |
| Don Rickles | Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that. | 123 |
| Rush Limbaugh | Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What's the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth. | 123 |
| Simon Cowell | I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. | 123 |
| Jean Rostand | In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's. | 123 |
| Johann Kaspar Lavater | The public seldom forgive twice. | 123 |
| Jean Anouilh | Nothing is irreparable in politics. | 123 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. | 124 |
| Walt Whitman | After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. | 124 |
| Imelda Marcos | When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers. | 124 |
| Arnold H. Glasow | An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied. | 124 |
| Carly Fiorina | That's the thing about business. Facts and numbers and results actually count. It's not just about words as it is in politics. | 124 |
| Gail Collins | The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising. | 124 |
| Michael Moore | Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. | 124 |
| Richard Stallman | Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. 'Don't bother us with politics', respond those who don't want to learn. | 124 |
| John W. Gardner | When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. | 124 |
| Winston Churchill | If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. | 125 |
| Otto von Bismarck | Politics ruins the character. | 125 |
| Carl von Clausewitz | Politics is the womb in which war develops. | 125 |
| Ed Koch | I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish - occasionally I do windows. | 125 |
| Eddie Vedder | You know, rock stardom... I have a hard time discussing that because I don't really accept it. It's not really that tangible. What's really bizarre is how it's used as a thing - you know, 'He's the rock star of politics,' 'He's the rock star of quarterbacks' - like it's the greatest thing in the world. | 125 |
| John Henrik Clarke | We have been educated into believing someone else's concept of the deity, and someone else's standard of beauty. You have the right to practice any religion and politics in a way that best suits your freedom, your dignity, and your understanding. And once you do that, you don't apologize. | 125 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. | 125 |
| Max Weber | Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. | 125 |
| Plato | One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. | 126 |
| John Stuart Mill | Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. | 126 |
| Emmeline Pankhurst | The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics. | 126 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. | 126 |
| Sarah Jessica Parker | One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education, academia, the service industry, arts, publishing, theater, politics, fashion, finance, as well as movie-making. | 126 |
| Young Jeezy | Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people. | 126 |
| Nelson Mandela | If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. | 201 |
| Vladimir Lenin | To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics. | 201 |
| Elliott Abrams | The raids on Freedom House, the National Democratic Institute and International Republican Institute, the Adenauer Foundation, and other groups helping Egyptians move toward respect for democratic politics and human rights were of a piece with the practices of Hosni Mubarak - only bolder and more repressive. | 201 |
| Justin Trudeau | Can I actually make a difference? Can I get people to believe in politics once again? Can I get people to accept more complex answers to complex questions? I know I can. I know that's what I do very well. | 201 |
| Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Never talk to a client about architecture. Talk to him about his children. That is simply good politics. he will not understand what you have to say about architecture most of the time. | 201 |
| Mark Cuban | I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. | 201 |
| Jennifer Granholm | Rush Limbaugh, we expect nonsense from him. But the Vatican, that's another story. When the Vatican is so threatened that it launches attacks on nuns, well, you know what they say in politics, a hit dog hollers. | 201 |
| Ronald Reagan | Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. | 202 |
| Thomas Jefferson | Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct. | 202 |
| Charles de Gaulle | I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. | 202 |
| Noam Chomsky | One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as he calls it - very outstanding political economist - which essentially - I mean, to say it in a sentence, he describes elections as occasions in which groups of investors coalesce and invest to control the state. | 202 |
| Robert Kennedy | Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes. | 202 |
| Hannah Arendt | No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. | 202 |
| Jackie Kennedy | You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. | 202 |
| Elliott Abrams | The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads. | 202 |
| Henry Adams | Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | 202 |
| Mike Huckabee | Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved. | 202 |
| Ronald Reagan | Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. | 203 |
| Richard M. Nixon | It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. | 203 |
| Woodrow Wilson | I have long enjoyed the friendship and companionship of Republicans because I am by instinct a teacher, and I would like to teach them something. | 203 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | This was the way I was brought up to think of politics, that politics was to do with ethics, it was to do with responsibility, it was to do with service, so I think I was conditioned to think like that, and I'm too old to change now. | 203 |
| H. G. Wells | In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. | 203 |
| Audrey Hepburn | Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics. | 204 |
| Douglas Adams | Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. | 204 |
| Will Rogers | The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. | 204 |
| Emma Goldman | Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. | 204 |
| Henry Adams | Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | 204 |
| John Kenneth Galbraith | Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative. | 204 |
| Ted Cruz | In both law and politics, I think the essential battle is the meta-battle of framing the narrative. | 204 |
| Martin O'Malley | The right to vote gives every eligible American a voice in our electoral politics. There's too much at stake to stay silent as this right is eroded. | 204 |
| Russell Baker | Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity. | 204 |
| Jane Austen | From politics, it was an easy step to silence. | 205 |
| Jay-Z | Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obama's camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. We've sat and had dinner, and we've spoken on the phone. He's a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool. | 205 |
| Alfred Adler | War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. | 205 |
| Douglas Coupland | Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room. | 205 |
| George Will | Obama, startled that components of government behave as interest groups, seems utterly unfamiliar with public choice theory. It demystifies and de-romanticizes politics by applying economic analysis - how incentives influence behavior - to government. | 205 |
| Ted Cruz | Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people. | 205 |
| William J. Clinton | When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day. | 205 |
| Andrew Jackson | I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office. | 206 |
| Groucho Marx | All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats. | 206 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long. | 206 |
| John Stuart Mill | The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. | 206 |
| Nas | I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. | 206 |
| Marilyn Manson | In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics. | 206 |
| Benazir Bhutto | The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges. | 206 |
| Robert Reich | Those at the top would do better with a smaller share of a booming economy that elicits a positive politics than they will do with an ever-larger share of an anemic economy that fuels the politics of anger. | 206 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. | 207 |
| Frank Lloyd Wright | A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it. | 207 |
| Pope John Paul II | Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society. | 207 |
| Vladimir Lenin | Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. | 207 |
| Alexis de Tocqueville | In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships. | 207 |
| John Adams | In politics the middle way is none at all. | 207 |
| Stephen King | We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based. | 207 |
| Gary Johnson | Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion. | 207 |
| Kid Rock | I do not believe that artists or actors and people should be out there like voicing their full-blown opinions on politics because, let's face it, at the end of the day, I'm not that smart of a guy. | 207 |
| Rick Warren | I believe in the separation of church and state, but I do not believe in the separation of politics from religion. | 207 |
| Thomas Huxley | There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. | 207 |
| John le Carre | If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing. | 207 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. | 208 |
| George Will | Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes. | 208 |
| Hedy Lamarr | It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe. | 208 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren. | 208 |
| Charles de Secondat | When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy. | 208 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. | 209 |
| Gilbert K. Chesterton | Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around. | 209 |
| Gore Vidal | Friends, there is no Left in American politics. | 209 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. | 209 |
| William Ellery Channing | The world is governed by opinion. | 209 |
| Malala Yousafzai | In every country, politics is considered to be a waste of time. | 210 |
| Margaret Thatcher | I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. | 210 |
| Mitt Romney | Conservatism has had from its inception vigorously positive, intellectually rigorous agenda and thinking. That agenda should have in my three pillars: strengthen the economy, strengthen our security, and strengthen our families. | 210 |
| Martin Luther King, Jr. | The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. | 211 |
| Woodrow Wilson | My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness. | 211 |
| Lewis Black | Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. | 211 |
| Aldous Huxley | The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. | 212 |
| Noam Chomsky | Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections. | 212 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | My hope is that 10 years from now, after I've been across the street at work for a while, they'll all be glad they gave me that wonderful vote. | 212 |
| Ted Cruz | Millions of Americans are standing up and saying, 'We want our country back!' Republicans, Democrats, Independents, will not go down the path of Greece, we will not go quietly into the night. | 212 |
| Jeb Bush | My record as a pro-life governor is not in dispute. I am completely pro-life, and I believe that we should have a culture of life. It's informed by my faith from beginning to end. And this not just as it related to unborn babies - I did it at the end of life issues as well. This is something that goes way beyond politics. | 212 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win. | 213 |
| Bjork | But I'm not interested in politics. I lose interest the microsecond it ceases to be emotional, when something becomes a political movement. What I'm interested in is emotions. | 214 |
| John Stuart Mill | A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. | 214 |
| William Blake | What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! | 214 |
| Annie Besant | There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. | 214 |
| Erich Fromm | The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. | 214 |
| Herbert Hoover | The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office. | 215 |
| R. Buckminster Fuller | War is the ultimate tool of politics. | 215 |
| Barack Obama | There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion. | 216 |
| Winston Churchill | Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. | 216 |
| Woodrow Wilson | Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. | 216 |
| Aung San Suu Kyi | I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it. | 216 |
| Marshall McLuhan | Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. | 216 |
| Dan Quayle | I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. | 217 |
| Edmund Burke | Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. | 217 |
| Franklin D. Roosevelt | In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. | 217 |
| Lysander Spooner | The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets. | 217 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. | 218 |
| Woodrow Wilson | A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. | 218 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | There is no gambling like politics. | 219 |
| Neil deGrasse Tyson | Any time scientists disagree, it's because we have insufficient data. Then we can agree on what kind of data to get; we get the data; and the data solves the problem. Either I'm right, or you're right, or we're both wrong. And we move on. That kind of conflict resolution does not exist in politics or religion. | 219 |
| Jonathan Swift | Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. | 219 |
| Jonathan Sacks | The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game. | 219 |
| Michael Leunig | What modern humans need help with is escaping from the despair of politics, commerce and media, escaping from the drabness and oppressiveness of worldly values and seeing through suburban mentality and normal community standards so that they can find some much-needed relief for their wilting souls. | 219 |
| Donald Rumsfeld | In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it. | 220 |
| Charles de Gaulle | Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. | 221 |
| Colin Powell | War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. | 221 |
| Dick Gregory | In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport. | 221 |
| Jean-Paul Sartre | Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. | 222 |
| Winston Churchill | It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging. | 224 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. | 225 |
| Honore de Balzac | To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. | 225 |
| David Attenborough | Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics. | 226 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. | 226 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner. | 301 |
| Lyndon B. Johnson | I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. | 302 |
| Margaret Thatcher | There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it. | 302 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. | 302 |
| Mitt Romney | I love my dad. It's fair to say that I probably would not have thought of politics had I not seen my mom and dad involved in politics. | 302 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. | 303 |
| Thomas Jefferson | I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office. | 303 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Politics is the art of controlling your environment. | 303 |
| Gertrude Stein | There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer. | 303 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. | 304 |
| Rush Limbaugh | In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn't happening anymore. | 304 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. | 305 |
| Harry S Truman | You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. | 305 |
| A. P. J. Abdul Kalam | What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics. | 305 |
| Ronald Reagan | Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | 306 |
| Theodore Roosevelt | A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. | 306 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants. | 306 |
| Barbara Bush | You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord. | 306 |
| W. C. Fields | Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. | 307 |
| Orson Welles | Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. | 307 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson | Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. | 307 |
| John F. Kennedy | My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight. | 309 |
| Peter Singer | I can tell you that too much money is corrupting American politics. Don't blame the American public. The U.S. Supreme Court has a lot to answer for, because it has made it impossible for Congress to reduce the corrupting influence of money on American political life. | 309 |
| Eleanor Roosevelt | Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. | 310 |
| Napoleon Bonaparte | I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. | 311 |
| Steven Pinker | My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. | 311 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. | 312 |
| Michelle Obama | I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics. | 312 |
| John Lydon | When you come from desperate poverty, and that's exactly what I come from, you know that nonsenses are not to be tolerated. I'm not sure who gains from chaos, but I know it's not the poor folks in the council flats. The politics of vindictiveness is never, ever anything like a solution. | 312 |
| Ronald Reagan | Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close. | 313 |
| Erma Bombeck | Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. | 313 |
| Elon Musk | In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution. | 315 |
| T. S. Eliot | I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. | 315 |
| Bill Gates | The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking. | 316 |
| George Orwell | If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right? | 317 |
| Ted Cruz | On the Left, the best and brightest go into politics - Barack Obama is the epitome of the perfect leftist. On the Right, the best and brightest go make money. Very few conservatives want to endure all the nonsense you have to put up with to run for office. | 317 |
| Christopher Hitchens | I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing. | 320 |
| Edmund Burke | Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. | 322 |
| Hillary Clinton | I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. | 322 |
| Will Rogers | There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. | 322 |
| Khalil Gibran | Life without liberty is like a body without spirit. | 323 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | I think I'm one of the most patriotic people that I've ever encountered in America. I consider myself a bedrock patriot. I participate very actively in local politics, because my voice might be worthwhile. I participate in a meaningful way - not by donations; I work at it. | 324 |
| Pope Francis | Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. | 324 |
| Robin Williams | Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. | 326 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. | 401 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient. | 401 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | In politics nothing is contemptible. | 402 |
| Nelson Mandela | When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. | 403 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Finality is not the language of politics. | 403 |
| John F. Kennedy | Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole. | 406 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. | 406 |
| Robert Frost | Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. | 407 |
| Marianne Williamson | I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me. | 408 |
| Chuck Palahniuk | The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. | 409 |
| Jackie Chan | You cannot mix sports with politics. | 409 |
| Marianne Williamson | Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality. | 409 |
| John F. Kennedy | I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. | 410 |
| Christopher Hitchens | The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you; you can't give up politics, it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself. | 411 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. | 414 |
| Steven Wright | I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald's. I'm completely turned off by the idea of politics. | 414 |
| Gloria Steinem | The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary. | 416 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different. | 416 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. | 417 |
| Albert Einstein | Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. | 418 |
| Nelson Mandela | Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. | 418 |
| Aristotle | Man is by nature a political animal. | 419 |
| Dwight D. Eisenhower | Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. | 419 |
| Christopher Hitchens | The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is. | 420 |
| Ambrose Bierce | Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. | 422 |
| Pope Francis | A good Catholic meddles in politics, offering the best of himself, so that those who govern can govern. But what is the best that we can offer to those who govern? Prayer! | 425 |
| Hunter S. Thompson | There might be some serious fun in politics. | 426 |
| Mahatma Gandhi | It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. | 501 |
| Marilyn Manson | The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously. | 502 |
| Mark Twain | Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. | 506 |
| Will Rogers | If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. | 506 |
| Winston Churchill | In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. | 507 |
| Hillary Clinton | If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval. | 507 |
| Will Rogers | Politics is applesauce. | 507 |
| Hillary Clinton | I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies. | 508 |
| Pope Francis | I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. | 508 |
| Hillary Clinton | The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. | 511 |
| Winston Churchill | Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. | 513 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. | 513 |
| Robert Kiyosaki | Commodities such as gold and silver have a world market that transcends national borders, politics, religions, and race. A person may not like someone else's religion, but he'll accept his gold. | 514 |
| Winston Churchill | Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. | 516 |
| George Bernard Shaw | What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? | 516 |
| Pope Francis | Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common good. I cannot wash my hands, eh? We all have to give something! | 516 |
| Aristotle | Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. | 517 |
| Abraham Lincoln | 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. | 520 |
| Albert Camus | I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary. | 520 |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. | 523 |
| Steven Wright | I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them. | 525 |
| Mark Twain | Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed. | 606 |
| Winston Churchill | Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. | 609 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. | 609 |
| Aristotle | Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. | 614 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Daniel Patrick Moynihan is the archetypal extremely smart person who went into politics anyway instead of doing something worthwhile for his country. | 618 |
| Winston Churchill | Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. | 619 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit. | 619 |
| Hillary Clinton | When I traveled as secretary of state, I was deluged with thick briefing books full of information about the politics, economy, and culture of each destination, so those took up most of my reading time. | 621 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin. | 621 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.' | 701 |
| Barack Obama | Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared. | 702 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The best and brightest don't go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs. | 702 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics. | 706 |
| Abraham Lincoln | I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance. | 708 |
| Winston Churchill | I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting. | 708 |
| P. J. O'Rourke | There are two factors in American politics that may seem strange to Europeans: race and religion. | 714 |
| Donald Trump | Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund - doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash. | 716 |
| Noam Chomsky | The money in politics is a cash cow for the media. | 907 |
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