Politics Quotes

‘Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself.’ – Mark Twain

‘If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve.’ – William Tecumseh Sherman

‘The ballot is stronger than the bullet.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.’ – Plato

‘The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.’ – Dante Alighieri

‘Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.’ – Mao Zedong

‘It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘In politics stupidity is not a handicap.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘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.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.’ – Milton Friedman

‘Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.’ – Harry S Truman

‘If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.’ – Emma Goldman

‘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.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘Politics have no relation to morals.’ – Niccolo Machiavelli

‘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.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.’ – Aesop

‘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.’ – Joseph Stalin

‘Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.’ – Khalil Gibran

‘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.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.’ – Robert Byrne

‘Man is by nature a political animal.’ – Aristotle

‘Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.’ – Ralph Nader

‘If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘People say satire is dead. It’s not dead; it’s alive and living in the White House.’ – Robin Williams

‘A week is a long time in politics.’ – Harold Wilson

‘Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we’ve been ignorant of their value.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘Vote for the man who promises least; he’ll be the least disappointing.’ – Bernard Baruch

‘War has rules, mud wrestling has rules – politics has no rules.’ – Ross Perot

‘There ain’t no answer. There ain’t gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That’s the answer.’ – Gertrude Stein

‘Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.’ – John Quincy Adams

‘When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I’m beginning to believe it.’ – Clarence Darrow

‘Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.’ – W. C. Fields

‘America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.’ – Warren G. Harding

‘A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.’ – Charles W. Pickering

‘Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.’ – Unknown

‘Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.’ – Ernest Benn

‘Politics is the art of controlling your environment.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat.’ – Jackie Kennedy

‘Under every stone lurks a politician.’ – Aristophanes

‘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.’ – George MacDonald

‘Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘Voting is a civic sacrament.’ – Theodore Hesburgh

‘Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There’s nothing to do but to stand there and take it.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician’s objective. Election and power are.’ – Cal Thomas

‘Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.’ – Jimmy Carter

‘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.’ – Deng Xiaoping

‘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.’ – Gilbert K. Chesterton

‘All people are born alike – except Republicans and Democrats.’ – Groucho Marx

‘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.’ – Andrew Jackson

‘Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes.’ – Robert Kennedy

‘Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.’ – E. B. White

‘An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.’ – Arnold H. Glasow

‘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.’ – Bill Nye

‘A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.’ – Fidel Castro

‘Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.’ – William E. Gladstone

‘There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.’ – Reinhold Niebuhr

‘We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.’ – Kin Hubbard

‘Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.’ – Doug Larson

‘Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men’s minds.’ – Thurgood Marshall

‘The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.’ – Edward Kennedy

‘Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.’ – Daniel Webster

‘If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor.’ – Lady Bird Johnson

‘Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.’ – Gore Vidal

”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.’ – Thomas Paine

‘If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.’ – Hyman Rickover

‘The most important political office is that of the private citizen.’ – Louis D. Brandeis

‘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.’ – B. R. Ambedkar

‘Voters don’t decide issues, they decide who will decide issues.’ – George Will

‘Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don’t vote.’ – William E. Simon

‘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.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.’ – Oscar Levant

‘I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.’ – Will Rogers

‘I always voted at my party’s call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.’ – William Gilbert

‘It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt.’ – Daniel Hannan

‘In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.’ – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

‘Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.’ – Theodore White

‘Good government is good politics.’ – Richard J. Daley

‘When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘The world is governed by opinion.’ – William Ellery Channing

‘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.’ – Grover Cleveland

‘I do have a political agenda. It’s to have as few regulations as possible.’ – Dan Quayle

‘Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.’ – A. J. Liebling

‘In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.’ – Elon Musk

‘In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.’ – J. William Fulbright

‘Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The military destabilised my government on politically motivated charges.’ – Benazir Bhutto

‘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.’ – Bill Maher

‘He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘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.’ – Frank Lloyd Wright

‘A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they’re dead.’ – Leo Rosten

‘Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.’ – Aristotle

‘Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn’t want to give up power.’ – Arthur C. Clarke

‘Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘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.’ – Leonard Bernstein

‘You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.’ – John Morley

‘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.’ – Caskie Stinnett

‘We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.’ – Stewart Udall

‘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.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.’ – Alphonse de Lamartine

‘By the time a man gets to be presidential material, he’s been bought ten times over.’ – Gore Vidal

‘A fool and his money are soon elected.’ – Will Rogers

‘The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.’ – Erich Fromm

‘After much prayerful consideration, I feel that I must say I have climbed my last political mountain.’ – George Wallace

‘I think it’s a terrible shame that politics has become show business.’ – Sydney Pollack

‘Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.’ – Milton Friedman

‘A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader.’ – Harry S Truman

‘Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman’s truncheon over the anarchist’s bomb.’ – Spiro T. Agnew

‘For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred.’ – John W. Gardner

‘We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.’ – Martin L. Gross

‘Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.’ – Jeff Rich

‘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.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand.’ – Annie Besant

‘A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.’ – Albert Pike

‘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.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor

‘When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.’ – Imelda Marcos

‘The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.’ – Ross Perot

‘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.’ – H. L. Mencken

‘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.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.’ – Emma Goldman

‘Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.’ – Mark Twain

‘A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.’ – Aristotle

‘A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else’s money.’ – Carter Glass

‘The secret of getting things done is to act!’ – Dante Alighieri

‘People want change but not too much change. Finding that balance is tricky for every politician.’ – Eleanor Clift

‘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.’ – Pope John Paul II

‘Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.’ – Richard Armour

‘You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.’ – Barbara Bush

‘Television is democracy at its ugliest.’ – Paddy Chayefsky

‘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.’ – Ted Cruz

‘Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.’ – Gore Vidal

‘Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.’ – Lewis Black

‘In politics nothing is contemptible.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it’s a sport.’ – Dick Gregory

‘My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Politics is applesauce.’ – Will Rogers

‘A politician will do anything to keep his job – even become a patriot.’ – William Randolph

‘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.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we’ll be called a democracy.’ – Roger Nash Baldwin

‘Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘Party honesty is party expediency.’ – Grover Cleveland

‘The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?’ – Robert Orben

‘They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.’ – Clare Boothe Luce

‘He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.’ – Henry Adams

‘In politics it is necessary either to betray one’s country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.’ – John W. Gardner

‘The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does.’ – Bill Vaughan

‘I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.’ – A. N. Wilson

‘Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.’ – Milton Friedman

‘A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.’ – John Stuart Mill

‘Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.’ – Will Rogers

‘The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined.’ – Neal Barnard

‘The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.’ – R. Buckminster Fuller

‘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.’ – Harry S Truman

‘It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.’ – Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.

‘I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘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.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘In order to become the master, the politician poses as the servant.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘Your every voter, as surely as your chief magistrate, exercises a public trust.’ – Grover Cleveland

‘There might be some serious fun in politics.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘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.’ – Barry Goldwater

‘The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Conservatives define themselves in terms of what they oppose.’ – George Will

‘There is no gambling like politics.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘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.’ – Thomas Babington Macaulay

‘The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face.’ – Clare Boothe Luce

‘Liberalism is, I think, resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘In politics the middle way is none at all.’ – John Adams

‘Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.’ – Gore Vidal

‘And after I make a lot of money, I’ll be able to afford running for office.’ – Christy Romano

‘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.’ – Frank Luntz

‘The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.’ – Fidel Castro

‘When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.’ – Montesquieu

‘The public seldom forgive twice.’ – Johann Kaspar Lavater

‘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.’ – John Foster Dulles

‘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.’ – Meg Greenfield

‘I discourage a cult of personality.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘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.’ – Oliver Stone

‘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.’ – Jeane Kirkpatrick

‘It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.’ – 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.’ – Sandra Day O’Connor

‘When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power.’ – Maggie Gallagher

‘I can’t let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.’ – Gerhard Schroder

‘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.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘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.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘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.’ – William O. Douglas

‘The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their own pockets.’ – Lysander Spooner

‘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.’ – Mitt Romney

‘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.’ – John Avlon

‘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.’ – William Hague

‘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.” – Ralph Nader

‘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.’ – Johnny Isakson

‘The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It’s the party of non-voters.’ – Robert Reich

‘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.’ – Jacques Delors

‘I know many writers who first dictate passages, then polish what they have dictated. I speak, then I polish – occasionally I do windows.’ – 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.’ – Ed Koch

‘It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.’ – Abba Eban

‘I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.’ – Zell Miller

‘Reporters thrive on the world’s misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.’ – Russell Baker

‘What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?’ – Gilbert Highet

‘I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.’ – Gary Hart

‘Their very conservatism is secondhand, and they don’t know what they are conserving.’ – Robertson Davies

‘It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.’ – Estelle Morris

‘Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.’ – Dick Durbin

‘You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job.’ – Thomas P. O’Neill

‘As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.’ – Daniel J. Boorstin

‘In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.’ – Franklin D. Roosevelt

‘The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.’ – Bill Gates

‘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.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.’ – John Adams

‘Saying that the Palestinian people aren’t really a people – that’s not a zany thing to say. That’s a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.’ – Lewis Black

‘Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.’ – Pericles

‘Politics is dirty. Politics is exciting. Politics is often very, very difficult and disappointing. And I really would rather the world would be a little more like it was when my dad was young, where you knew pretty much where people stood on the great moral issues.’ – James Dobson

‘Politics is show business for ugly people.’ – Paul Begala

‘Everything is politics.’ – Thomas Mann

‘Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘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.’ – Anna Lindh

‘There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.’ – Vladimir Lenin

‘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.’ – Michael Ignatieff

‘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.’ – Gerard Way

‘War is the continuation of politics by other means.’ – Carl von Clausewitz

‘Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.’ – Frank Zappa

‘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.’ – Edgar Mitchell

‘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.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.’ – Otto von Bismarck

‘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.’ – Dr. Seuss

‘Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.’ – Mario Puzo

‘Hatred, anger, and violence can destroy us: the politics of polarization is dangerous.’ – Rahul Gandhi

‘Politics is a dirty game. We have our rules in boxing. In politics, no rules. Especially a young democracy like Ukraine. It’s more like MMA.’ – Vitali Klitschko

‘If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.’ – Will Rogers

‘In the end, that’s what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?’ – Barack Obama

‘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.’ – will.i.am

‘I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.’ – T. S. Eliot

‘I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I’m a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.’ – Vivienne Westwood

‘You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘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.’ – Ray Bradbury

‘As I’ve gotten older, I’ve gotten more liberal, and my father is increasingly conservative. It’s so shocking to me because I always thought we had the same politics. The day I realized we voted for different presidents, I practically fell out of my chair.’ – Lauren Graham

‘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.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘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.’ – George Orwell

‘I’m Canadian, and so American politics aren’t really in my wheelhouse.’ – Ryan Gosling

‘Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.’ – Albert Einstein

‘Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.’ – Joseph Sobran

‘Intersectionality draws attention to invisibilities that exist in feminism, in anti-racism, in class politics, so, obviously, it takes a lot of work to consistently challenge ourselves to be attentive to aspects of power that we don’t ourselves experience.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘Politics makes strange bedfellows.’ – Charles Dudley Warner

‘All art is political in the sense that it serves someone’s politics.’ – August Wilson

‘No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.’ – Jacob Bronowski

‘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.’ – T. D. Jakes

‘In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.’ – Catherine the Great

‘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.’ – Colin Powell

‘At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.’ – Booker T. Washington

‘If you want to know about my politics, the only way to do that is to look at my work.’ – Tommy Lee Jones

‘Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.’ – Henry Adams

‘During the Cold War, the non-aligned movement tried to become a ‘third force’ in world politics, but failed because it was too large and unwieldy.’ – Stephen Kinzer

‘Politics are not the task of a Christian.’ – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

‘Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.’ – Jonathan Swift

‘Family politics are worse than world politics. That’s all I can say. You don’t get to choose your family; you get to choose your friends. Your family is imposed upon you.’ – Michael Cimino

‘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.’ – Audrey Hepburn

‘Am I a liberal or conservative? I’m neither. Like most Americans, I find politics very frustrating. Like most Americans, I’d like to hear from politicians the facts. That is what drives me.’ – Soledad O’Brien

‘Politics isn’t about left versus right; it’s about top versus bottom.’ – Jim Hightower

‘All politics is local.’ – Thomas P. O’Neill

‘Sports and politics don’t mix.’ – Eric Heiden

‘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.’ – Myles Munroe

‘Politics makes me sick.’ – William Howard Taft

‘We all have our likes and our dislikes. But… when we’re doing news – when we’re doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we’re doing the daily news, covering politics – it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘The politics of fear are always the same. They are easily recognisable in retrospect. They are easy to acquiesce in at the time.’ – Naomi Alderman

‘Crime does not pay as well as politics.’ – Alfred Newman

‘The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics… This is the difference between India and Pakistan.’ – Lal Bahadur Shastri

‘No, I’m not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.’ – Jay-Z

‘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.’ – Jackie Robinson

‘Music and politics are in essence about communication. Without over-stretching the analogy I do feel a sense of rhythm is important in getting your message across.’ – Charles Kennedy

‘Politics aside, you look at Barack Obama, he is ripped.’ – Jillian Michaels

‘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.’ – Aldous Huxley

‘When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.’ – Emmanuel Macron

‘I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.’ – Jane Goodall

‘Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.’ – Mikhail Bakunin

‘Whether it’s ‘Veep’ or ‘Homeland’ or ‘The West Wing’ – which is a more idealised version of democracy – people are fascinated by politics.’ – Kevin Spacey

‘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.’ – Frank Lautenberg

‘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.’ – Eleanor Roosevelt

‘Do you know who the real hypocrite is? It’s the federal government and the Justice Department. It’s a fraud; it’s a lie. They have no interest in the education of black children. They are only interested in the politics of it.’ – James Meredith

‘Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.’ – Maajid Nawaz

‘Divorced from ethics, leadership is reduced to management and politics to mere technique.’ – James MacGregor Burns

‘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.’ – Marshall McLuhan

‘Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won’t come out as one.’ – Honeysuckle Weeks

‘War is often about making the least-worst decision. The same could be said about politics. But the stakes are higher in war, when the commander-in-chief is called upon to defend the nation.’ – Mark McKinnon

‘To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey

‘I don’t know much about politics, and I don’t want to know. That’s why I rarely involve myself in politics.’ – Elie Wiesel

‘Politics is a blood sport.’ – Aneurin Bevan

‘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.’ – Peggy Noonan

‘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.’ – Jonathan Haidt

‘There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.’ – Johann Lamont

‘Politics itself is so unsexy, isn’t it? But when the politics in creative works are really explored – not used as a vehicle – the results can be really interesting.’ – Marisa Tomei

‘Politics is not perfect but it’s the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.’ – Maynard Jackson

‘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.’ – Eugene McCarthy

‘There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician?’ – Ted Cruz

‘At present, our country needs women’s idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘American politics is theatre. There is a frightening emotionalism at national conventions.’ – Robert Dallek

‘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.’ – Angela Davis

‘Either one lives ‘for’ politics or one lives ‘off’ politics.’ – Max Weber

‘I think good governance and good politics can go together.’ – N. Chandrababu Naidu

‘I believe that the way politics has been done in the country is wrong. It has always been based on alliances that don’t have the well-being of the people as their first priority.’ – Nayib Bukele

‘Any new technology, if it’s used by evil people, bad things can happen. But that’s more a question of the politics of the technology.’ – Geoffrey Hinton

‘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.’ – Nathan Myhrvold

‘Gay marriage is absolutely something that I am in full support of and a big advocate of, and I think it’s an important issue, but there’s a reason that I don’t talk about politics and why I’ll never be in politics. I am not the person to ever do that.’ – Jamie-Lynn Sigler

‘Politics is a contact sport.’ – Steve Chabot

‘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.’ – Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

‘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.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.’ – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

‘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.’ – Christopher Hitchens

‘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.’ – Pam Ferris

‘The marginalized did not create identity politics: their identities have been forced on them by dominant groups, and politics is the most effective method of revolt.’ – Stacey Abrams

‘We have to be bold in our national ambitions. First, we must win the fight against poverty within the next decade. Second, we must improve moral standards in government and society to provide a strong foundation for good governance. Third, we must change the character of our politics to promote fertile ground for reforms.’ – Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

‘There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.’ – Alan Clark

‘Uncle Matheson and my father would frequently argue long into the night about politics. Like me, he was all about socialism, togetherness and investing in people, whereas Matheson, to this day, holds very strong conservative views.’ – Robson Green

‘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.’ – David Attenborough

‘What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I’ve no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house.’ – Jon Bon Jovi

‘Identity politics is not politics at all, since it precisely negates the political as such by re-construing political positions in ethnic terms, subsuming ‘ought’ under ‘is.” – Mark Fisher

‘In politics, a lie unanswered becomes truth within 24 hours.’ – Willie Brown

‘Politics should not be a lifelong career, and elected officials should not be allowed to fix themselves in the halls of power of a nation.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘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.’ – Walt Whitman

‘We should not underestimate that: the Chinese people’s ignorance. Thousands of years of despotism had been such a poison that their understanding of modern politics is even inferior to that of the black slaves and other immigrants.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.’ – Benjamin Disraeli

‘Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He’s a black man. That’s what it is: it’s racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He’s a centrist.’ – Ian McShane

‘Art, freedom and creativity will change society faster than politics.’ – Victor Pinchuk

‘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.’ – Alexander Hamilton

‘Nothing is off-limits. There’s just some things I cannot crack. Politics I can’t do. When I start to talk about it, I just get really angry and super sincere. I have never found a way to craft all of that absurdity into funny.’ – Ali Wong

‘When you work as a humanitarian, you are conscious that politics have to be considered. Because if you really want to make an extreme change, then you have a responsibility.’ – Angelina Jolie

‘That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics.’ – John Wilkes

‘Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.’ – Molly Ivins

‘When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It’s different than bringing something in by yourself.’ – Albert Hammond, Jr.

‘I’ve always said that in politics, your enemies can’t hurt you, but your friends will kill you.’ – Ann Richards

‘I’ve often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.’ – Yehuda Amichai

‘My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it’s an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won’t go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.’ – Eniola Aluko

‘I don’t like politicians, and I don’t like politics. I definitely don’t want to be associated with any of them.’ – Steven Wright

‘The idea that religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.’ – Jerry Falwell

‘The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst

‘Until the attack on Pearl Harbor, isolationism was an important, even dominant strand in U.S. politics. After the Second World War, this strand disappeared, smothered by the widespread and bipartisan conviction that the United States needed to stay engaged with the world to prevent future crises.’ – Anne Applebaum

‘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.’ – James Russell Lowell

‘I’m not a political person. When I start to get into it, it just upsets me. I feel so powerless when it comes to politics. So I’ve just decided to be non-political and very, very pro-soldier.’ – Channing Tatum

‘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.’ – Neil deGrasse Tyson

‘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.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘Competition, by itself, always leads to cheating by the powerful, who try to establish pyramids of power, like feudalism. Yet, competition is the great creative force! So how do we save it from its own contradictions? By cooperation! By cooperating with each other, via politics, to make rules and prevent cheating, so that competition can thrive!’ – David Brin

‘Politics with me isn’t theater. It’s performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake.’ – Roger Stone

‘Just as Darwin discovered the law of development of organic nature, so Marx discovered the law of development of human history: the simple fact, hitherto concealed by an overgrowth of ideology, that mankind must first of all eat, drink, have shelter and clothing, before it can pursue politics, science, art, religion, etc.’ – Friedrich Engels

‘There are those who would draw a sharp line between power politics and a principled foreign policy based on values. This polarized view – you are either a realist or devoted to norms and values – may be just fine in academic debate, but it is a disaster for American foreign policy. American values are universal.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘The essential ingredient of politics is timing.’ – Pierre Trudeau

‘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.’ – John Lewis

‘Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.’ – Chris Cooper

‘Politics organizes our lives. We can’t disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn’t mean you have to be away from it. It’s ubiquitous.’ – Pawan Kalyan

‘Half a century ago, Ronald Reagan, the man whose relentless optimism inspired me to enter politics, famously said that he didn’t leave the Democratic Party; the party left him. I can certainly relate. I didn’t leave the Republican Party; it left me.’ – Charlie Crist

‘Dialogue is the essence of parliamentary politics.’ – Sharad Pawar

‘I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It’s really above and beyond American politics.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘I think my politics are just inclined to be empathetic and humanistic. I grew up with so many different kinds of people with different politics, different religion, no religion, no politics, education, no education, and I was infatuated with all of them.’ – Lily Tomlin

‘Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.’ – Robert Frost

‘The movies were custard compared to politics.’ – Nancy Reagan

‘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.’ – Shirley Temple

‘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.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Politics is just show business for ugly people.’ – Jay Leno

‘The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘It’s been my experience in politics that you can try and plan it out: ‘I’m going to hit the three ball which will hit the eight ball.’ You’ve just got to go run and try to do everything right. And then have a little luck.’ – John Kennedy

‘Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.’ – Ridley Scott

‘If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there’s a lot of racism going on then there’s another Hip Hop artist who’s gonna come out and speak their mind.’ – Afrika Bambaataa

‘Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.’ – Robert Louis Stevenson

‘Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn’t filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.’ – Naomi Klein

‘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.’ – Shashi Tharoor

‘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.’ – Hillary Clinton

‘Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It’s too controversial.’ – Erma Bombeck

‘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!’ – William Blake

‘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.’ – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

‘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!’ – Pope Francis

‘I’m a Republican. I may go into politics myself.’ – Lou Ferrigno

‘It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.’ – Robert Byrd

‘I really rebel against this idea that politics has to be a place full of ego and where you’re constantly focused on scoring hits against each one another. Yes, we need a robust democracy, but you can be strong, and you can be kind.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.’ – Maria Montessori

‘The tax code is becoming steadily more progressive, which shouldn’t surprise anyone who understands power politics. It’s always easier to force sacrifice on an unpopular minority than it is to ask the majority to pony up.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘Politics and football don’t mix.’ – Ruud Gullit

‘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.’ – Rush Limbaugh

‘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.’ – Donald Rumsfeld

‘Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.’ – Hakeem Jeffries

‘From politics, it was an easy step to silence.’ – Jane Austen

‘I’m sick and tired of politics and politicians as usual.’ – Gavin Newsom

‘The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.’ – Otto von Bismarck

‘Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.’ – P. T. Barnum

‘I don’t have a passion for politics, but I do have a passion for truth and justice.’ – Randy Rainbow

‘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.’ – Billy Hughes

‘Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.’ – George Jean Nathan

‘I don’t get involved in politics. I think that it is a waste of time and money because very often a politician cannot do much, and if you give him money, you embarrass him, so he can’t do anything.’ – Harry Triguboff

‘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.’ – Maya Lin

‘I’m not going to be intimidated by people or identity politics. I think that’s a dead end.’ – Shepard Fairey

‘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.’ – Winfield Scott Hancock

‘The paradigm of the ‘Aquarian Conspiracy’ sees humankind embedded in nature. It promotes the autonomous individual in a decentralized society… The new perspective respects the ecology of everything: birth, death, learning, health, family, work, science, spirituality, the arts, the community, relationships, politics.’ – Marilyn Ferguson

‘I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.’ – Thomas Jefferson

‘I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘I think we need more young people; we need to elect young people to government. We need to give them a chance, in the media, in politics, in democracy.’ – Mikhail Gorbachev

‘I’m not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.’ – Tom Hayden

‘Part of the core information that I’ve been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don’t play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let’s say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they’re equally dangerous.’ – Jordan Peterson

”Beauty’ is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.’ – Naomi Wolf

‘When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘Politics is not a tit-for-tat game. It’s not ‘I helped you, now you help me.” – Amanda Knox

‘In government you carry each hope; each disillusion. And in politics it’s always about the next challenge.’ – Tony Blair

‘Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.’ – Sidney Hillman

‘A cardinal rule of politics is that if an issue has the potential to cause problems for a candidate, it is best to deal with it well before the election so the dust has time to settle.’ – Jo Becker

‘High levels of economic inequality lead to imbalances in political power, as those at the top use their economic weight to shape our politics in ways that give them more economic power.’ – Joseph Stiglitz

‘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.’ – Donna Brazile

‘We’ve had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia.’ – Lin-Manuel Miranda

‘The arts are the one thing that appeal right across all forms of politics, race, creed – everything.’ – Andrew Lloyd Webber

‘My friend told me later he got the chicken pox. I told him I caught politics and never got over it.’ – Jack Johnson

‘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.’ – John Major

‘There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘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.’ – Charles Krauthammer

‘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.’ – Gloria Steinem

‘We are in the midst of an exciting canvass… I am working very hard in politics as well as in other matters. We are determined that Mississippi shall be settled on a basis of justice and political and legal equality.’ – Hiram Rhodes Revels

‘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.’ – Sir Mix-a-Lot

‘When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.’ – Imran Khan

‘In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.’ – Jesse Jackson

‘A politician is a person with whose politics you don’t agree; if you agree with him he’s a statesman.’ – David Lloyd George

‘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.’ – Pankaj Mishra

‘In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bureaucrats and the people, we are a team.’ – Narendra Modi

‘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.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘There is dirty politics in sports federations.’ – Milkha Singh

‘I am not a fan of politics.’ – Chris Kyle

‘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.’ – Bob Geldof

‘Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘I think politics is like an X-ray machine: Everything is found out eventually.’ – Nicolle Wallace

‘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.’ – Ai Weiwei

‘I’m conservative in my thought. I’m conservative in my theology. I’m conservative in my politics.’ – Richie Furay

‘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.’ – Stephen King

‘Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics.’ – Pope Benedict XVI

‘I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.’ – Moira Kelly

‘I don’t like to talk about things where you’re going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.’ – Loretta Lynn

‘Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.’ – Ana Navarro

‘We want to make politics sort of entertaining. If it is entertaining, people are going to be interested in it, and if they are interested in it, they might think more about it and maybe involve themselves in some way down the line.’ – John F. Kennedy Jr.

‘I prefer to stay out of politics, really.’ – Roger Taylor

‘No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.’ – Lyman Beecher

‘The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.’ – Jonathan Sacks

‘Are my politics Democrat or Republican? I think both are horrific. And it doesn’t matter anyway. Money runs America; money runs everywhere.’ – Shane Smith

‘I chose not to go into politics and policy. Those policies are my husband’s job.’ – Melania Trump

‘We are not doing celebrity, personality, abusive politics – we are doing ideas. This is about hope.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘The intersection of religion and world politics has often been a bloody crossroads.’ – Elliott Abrams

‘If we tried to write about politics, you’d realize that we’re all a bunch of idiots.’ – Mark Hoppus

‘Transparency is not about restoring trust in institutions. Transparency is the politics of managing mistrust.’ – Ivan Krastev

‘Anybody who doesn’t know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose.’ – James Ellroy

‘War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.’ – Alfred Adler

‘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.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘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.’ – Bobby Seale

‘Architecture is a technology. And it’s involved in all of the different networks of systems that produce architecture – including politics, economics, social and cultural conditions. So architecture is already in technology.’ – Elizabeth Diller

‘Nature is full of drama. I know nothing about biology, about birds, about insects, about the details of politics. I just make movies about human interest stories.’ – Jacques Perrin

‘It’s important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.’ – J. B. Pritzker

‘In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.’ – Winston Churchill

‘I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven’t.’ – James Stockdale

‘Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.’ – Paul Valery

‘In politics, you’re like a toilet seat: you’re up one day and down the next.’ – Doug Ford

‘People who are in politics to be right all the time would be better off taking up fly-fishing. It’s less dangerous. Politics that is not applied in the real world and doesn’t address the real challenges and paradoxes and agonies is a hobby.’ – Neil Kinnock

‘Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.’ – Douglas Coupland

‘Russia has nothing: no successful politics or economy.’ – Angela Merkel

‘There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.’ – Julian Bond

‘In 2009, my father wanted me to join politics. I told him, ‘Why should I jump into the dirt and grime of politics when I can have politicians come to me as owner of a media group?’ Then my father gave me an ultimatum.’ – Y. S. Jaganmohan Reddy

‘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.’ – Belle Boyd

‘I don’t know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.’ – Richard Reeves

‘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.’ – Sean Combs

‘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.’ – Jon Katz

‘The fact that people die because of an AK-47 is not because of the designer, but because of politics.’ – Mikhail Kalashnikov

‘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.’ – William J. Clinton

‘Politics is applied biology.’ – Ernst Haeckel

‘Only very intelligent people don’t wish they were in politics, and I’m dumb enough to want to be in there.’ – Orson Welles

‘In my early 20s, I studied history and politics, and I really thought that perhaps I would devote my life to that.’ – Wallace Shawn

‘There is too much at stake for us to surrender to the politics of polarization.’ – Brad Henry

‘I’m interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don’t watch politics for sport.’ – Anna Chlumsky

‘Politics is the womb in which war develops.’ – Carl von Clausewitz

‘I’ve always been interested in local politics. I never rule anything out, but I have a very full life right now, with a very young daughter. I have a lot that I want to do still with my career… I can’t imagine that would be a possibility for a long time.’ – Scarlett Johansson

‘I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.’ – Paul Nurse

‘I was in college for organizational communication and politics because I was just fascinated by influence. I wondered how people have influence, not because I wanted to inspire the world – yet.’ – Brendon Burchard

‘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.’ – Tatyana Tolstaya

‘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.’ – Douglas Adams

‘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.’ – Vinny Guadagnino

‘The new era of bottom-up politics has had politically paradoxical consequences in China. While it has made the system of governance more participatory, it has made the central government less authoritarian and, therefore, more bureaucratic and cautious.’ – Sanjaya Baru

‘Red Sonja, she was a hellraiser before Buffy, Xena, and Ripley even existed. When so many heroines in comics were all hung up on romance and the bizarre gender politics of comics at the time, Sonja was out cutting off the heads of dragons and pirates.’ – Gail Simone

‘I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and – at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together – that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘Most people don’t want to talk about politics and religion. They say, ‘Let’s talk about something else.” – Prince

‘If we lived within our means – by being prudent – the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species.’ – Jose Mujica

‘And I’m not apolitical – I’m very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it’s nobody’s business unless you’re over at my house having dinner.’ – Tom Hanks

‘Politics is downstream from culture.’ – Ben Domenech

‘Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.’ – Vladimir Lenin

‘Architects feel empowered to give opinions about politics and sociology and philosophy without knowing much about it. Kind of in the same way that they think they can design furniture or fashion or utensils for dining.’ – Rafael Vinoly

‘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.’ – Gabriel Iglesias

‘What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.’ – Barack Obama

‘In New York, politics is a crime scene from the very beginning. We have the most corrupt state government in the United States.’ – Michael Caputo

‘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.’ – Rainer Werner Fassbinder

‘I’m not a politically-charged person. I don’t want to be. I don’t want to talk about politics and I don’t want to sing about politics, but if you’re talking about environmental issues then you can’t talk about one without the other.’ – Oliver Sykes

‘No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.’ – Henry Adams

‘The abolitionists were not like the rugged people out West, and they were not like John Brown, either. They were people who made speeches and did politics.’ – James McBride

‘I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.’ – Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

‘I think politics is a dirty game. We’ve seen the sides that they take; we’ve seen the commentary they have had on my father.’ – Donald Trump, Jr.

‘We’re in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.’ – Talib Kweli

‘Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.’ – Edmund Burke

‘May the States be so bound to each other as forever to defy European politics. Upon that union, their consequence, their happiness, will depend. This is the first wish of a heart more truly American than words can express.’ – Marquis de Lafayette

‘I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy… fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense.’ – Lilly Pulitzer

‘If you’re sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.’ – George W. Bush

‘Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.’ – David Benioff

‘Ineos is a friendly organisation. Very few people leave. It’s collegiate. There’s not much politics, and we like decent people. We don’t like arrogance or bullies.’ – Jim Ratcliffe

‘Personal convictions are not politics. Personal convictions, if they become the subject of a group conviction, they become a cult.’ – Norman Finkelstein

‘Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘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.’ – Anita Roddick

‘We’re not into politics at all. We’re just saying what other people are afraid to say.’ – Eazy-E

‘Human rights, race relations, gender politics, health care, and foreign policy – it’s a lot to keep track of, and yet all of these things affect us in our daily lives. Making sense of everything requires meticulous unpacking of feelings, delicate navigation of social norms, and a community of love to help along the way.’ – Tracee Ellis Ross

‘Activity in politics also produces eager competition and sharp rivalry.’ – John George Nicolay

‘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.’ – John Henrik Clarke

‘Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.’ – Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

‘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.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘Politics is the art of the possible.’ – Otto von Bismarck

‘We need to get away from the politics of grievance and towards the politics of opportunity.’ – Jake Auchincloss

‘The best and brightest don’t go into politics. The best and brightest are at Goldman Sachs.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I’ve been lucky enough in ‘The West Wing’ and ‘Brothers & Sisters’ to talk about the issues that are important to me with none of the awful mud-slinging or public scrutiny you have in politics.’ – Rob Lowe

‘I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.’ – Lord Byron

‘Farmer’s plight and dismal condition of common man in Punjab forced me to join politics.’ – Gurpreet Ghuggi

‘A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.’ – Michael J. Knowles

‘To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.’ – Honore de Balzac

‘I’ve never believed it’s a fiction writer’s job to create an exact replica of the past, a diorama the reader can step right into. But it is my responsibility to learn everything of the world I’m writing about, to become an expert in the politics and history that formed my characters’ identities.’ – Molly Antopol

‘We mean by ‘politics’ the people’s business – the most important business there is.’ – Adlai Stevenson I

‘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.’ – John Dalberg-Acton

‘Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.’ – Michel De Certeau

‘Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics, it is everything.’ – Peggy Noonan

‘I don’t want to pass a punitive law, or use politics as a vendetta.’ – Romano Prodi

‘Politics is agony and ecstasy. The highs are amazing. The lows are excruciating.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘Objective journalism is one of the main reasons that American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘Despite the centrality of communication to politics it is remarkable how little attention Insiders pay to what works – never mind the question ‘what could work much better?” – Dominic Cummings

‘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.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘The state of law is equal for all people. It cannot depend on electoral politics.’ – Baltasar Garzon

‘Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Unfortunately, I think it’s very difficult to separate policy from politics. In a perfect world, in some instances, you probably would want to. In other instances, you’d probably say that the political element is important because it should, in a perfect world, match what the stakeholders need or want, or what the public is after.’ – Andrew Ross Sorkin

‘I played by the rules of politics as I found them.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment – the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.’ – Roger Scruton

‘Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.’ – Theresa May

‘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.’ – Robert Kiyosaki

‘The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.’ – Will Rogers

‘Thatcherism, as an ideology, addresses the fears, the anxieties, the lost identities, of a people. It invites us to think about politics in images. It is addressed to our collective fantasies, to Britain as an imagined community, to the social imaginary.’ – Stuart Hall

‘Normally, I stay away from politics – unless I’m going to run for president.’ – Grace Jones

‘Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.’ – Lester B. Pearson

‘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.’ – Dennis Kucinich

‘Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.’ – Bill Moyers

‘Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.’ – Steve Largent

‘I think that politics could be a positive thing. My beef is that people focus on the personal aspect of a politician too much. They should focus on the results.’ – LL Cool J

‘The protest years were over, not just for me but for a whole generation, and in music, just like in politics, many of the greatest talents were dead or in exile, and their place was filled by third-rate imitators.’ – Nina Simone

‘Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don’t really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.’ – Gary Johnson

‘Women are as much politicians as men, and I hope that more and more women will enter public life through politics, as this would not only increase participation of women in public life but also have a salutary effect for the amelioration of women’s status in India.’ – Preneet Kaur

‘Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.’ – Fletcher Knebel

‘All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.’ – James Reston

‘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.’ – Anthony de Mello

‘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.’ – Shirley Temple

‘Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it’s very important to know that politics.’ – Abhishek Banerjee

‘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.’ – Linus Torvalds

‘Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging – not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That’s something new for Russia.’ – Alexei Navalny

‘In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.’ – H. G. Wells

‘Politics are wack – it’s mostly about the characters instead of the issues, like how religion is about religion instead of spirituality.’ – Santigold

‘Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that.’ – Don Rickles

‘We, to some degree, are like what we are because we inherited certain things from the Greeks and the Romans. One of them that’s so striking is the whole area of politics.’ – Donald Kagan

‘I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.’ – Dwayne Johnson

”The Museum of Innocence’ is not about politics; it’s a love story, but I think it’s political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.’ – Orhan Pamuk

‘It’s not about division. It’s not about politics. My concern is how do we come together?’ – LeVar Burton

‘I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.’ – John Adams

‘I know more about wheat and olive trees than I do about politics.’ – Ariel Sharon

‘I don’t believe in politics. I’m an anarchist, I guess you could say. I think people could be just fine looking after themselves.’ – Woody Harrelson

‘Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.’ – Jiang Zemin

‘What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?’ – George Bernard Shaw

‘As politics is not subtraction but addition, those who share views and ideas need to join forces and they have to cooperate with political opponents even after they win an election.’ – Park Won-soon

‘We need real campaign finance reform to loosen the grip of special interests on politics.’ – Tom Daschle

‘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.’ – Carrie Mae Weems

‘I don’t know about politics so much. I’m a professional athlete.’ – Khabib Nurmagomedov

‘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.’ – Reza Aslan

‘We are bringing women into politics to change the nature of politics, to change the vision, to change the institutions. Women are not wedded to the policies of the past. We didn’t craft them. They didn’t let us.’ – Bella Abzug

‘Of what does politics consist except the making of imperfect decisions, many of them unjust and quite a few of them deadly?’ – Lewis H. Lapham

‘As one of a handful of religion professors in the U.S. who study, write, and teach about conservative Christianity and politics, I am all too aware of the real meaning of the list and of its purpose. Promoted by Turning Point USA, the list is not simply designed to expose professors who discriminate; it is designed to silence and smear.’ – Anthea Butler

‘The Republican National Convention is a great place to hear people talk about politics and values and all that sort of thing. But there’s one thing brings me back year after year, and that’s white people dancing. The RNC is the world’s premier Caucasian amateur dance festival.’ – Jimmy Kimmel

‘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.’ – Raul Castro

‘Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.’ – Mahatma Gandhi

‘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.’ – Peter Singer

‘Yeah, I don’t deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.’ – Max Cannon

‘Well you know it’s dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there’s a lot of killing in politics.’ – Manny Pacquiao

‘We’ve been trying to open the gates of communication between Havana and Miami through art, which is apolitical most of the time: It doesn’t have anything to do with politics and is only an exchange of ideas.’ – Jorge M. Perez

‘Joy doesn’t betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content.’ – Mason Cooley

‘I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.’ – Charles de Gaulle

‘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.’ – Hannah Arendt

‘I will never retire from politics, the revolution, or the ideas I have.’ – Fidel Castro

‘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.’ – Mao Zedong

‘American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.’ – Bob Schieffer

‘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.’ – Samuel L. Jackson

‘Probably being in politics is the worst place for me to be.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn’t matter who was president.’ – James Carville

‘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.’ – Robin Williams

‘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.’ – Matt Taibbi

‘For every job you require a kind of mindset. To be a teacher one should be knowledgeable. To be a software engineer you should know computer data system analysis, computer language etc. So, my mindset is not aligned with politics.’ – Sudha Murty

‘University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.’ – Henry Kissinger

‘I have no desire to enter politics. Because I am not suited for that.’ – N. R. Narayana Murthy

‘You can’t ignore politics, no matter how much you’d like to.’ – Molly Ivins

‘I am in the fighting game. I don’t care about anything else. I don’t watch the news, I don’t care about politics, I don’t care about other sports. I don’t care about anything I don’t need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters.’ – Conor McGregor

‘I’m not involved in the politics of religion, but I love what the message is.’ – Jane Seymour

‘Movies and media really can influence us. A few years ago, my daughter wanted to be a dancer; since Obama came into office, she now wants to be a lawyer and get into politics and maybe even be president.’ – Common

‘Politics doesn’t make strange bedfellows – marriage does.’ – Groucho Marx

‘In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.’ – Alexis de Tocqueville

‘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.’ – Hans Eysenck

‘Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.’ – Max Weber

‘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.’ – Belva Lockwood

‘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.’ – Robert Reich

‘Accessibility and openness are good politics but bad security.’ – Dan Bongino

‘Sunil Dutt asked me, rather pushed me, to join politics.’ – Ranjeet

‘I don’t follow politics; it doesn’t interest me. So why should I vote?’ – Mario Balotelli

‘In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.’ – Lawrence Summers

‘I don’t want to force my politics on my readers.’ – John Grisham

‘Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.’ – Stone Gossard

‘I never make a distinction between private life and politics – that’s a petit bourgeois thing. How can you make a stand against Nazi Germany, or in Rwanda, when you live life by making that distinction?’ – Marcel Ophuls

‘I got into acting to avoid politics of any sort so I could remain in a fantasy world.’ – Mary Lynn Rajskub

‘People are just trying to work their jobs, raise their families, discipline their kids, and have a good life… Politics has just become like bad weather. And they deserve clear skies.’ – Eddie Vedder

‘The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.’ – Steve Hilton

‘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.’ – Kate Millett

‘But if we keep doing politics the way we’re doing politics, and we keep doing climate action the way we’re doing climate action, we will not have a history that judges us because we, certainly as a civilization, won’t be here.’ – Elizabeth May

‘Some of the issues with identity politics are critical moral issues. But we’ve got to show America that we don’t have a plan just on these so-called identity politics issues, but that we have a plan for the economy, that we know how to provide for a strong national defense.’ – Seth Moulton

‘Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.’ – H. Rap Brown

‘I definitely want to get into environmental science and environmental politics, learning a lot more and preserving what’s left of the world. That’s such a sacred circle to be in. I’d love to contribute to that.’ – SZA

‘Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.’ – Walter Gropius

‘President Trump wouldn’t stick to politics, so he got to jump into sports. So I feel very comfortable now, moving forward, jumping back and forth. Sports to politics, politics to sports.’ – Shannon Sharpe

‘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.’ – Olympia Snowe

‘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.’ – Saul Alinsky

‘The problem with religious doctrine, as with politics, because of its ability to give people authority, it has a tendency to attract people that want authority for all the wrong reasons, and that is what it has done across all time.’ – Tobias Forge

‘Being a writer in Iceland, you get rewarded all the time: People really do read our books, and they have opinions; they love them, or they hate them. At the average Christmas party, people push politics and the Kardashians aside and discuss literature.’ – Hallgrimur Helgason

‘Politics are private. I don’t understand people who try to convince you to join one party or another.’ – Carolina Herrera

‘Politics is not really my thing.’ – John Malkovich

‘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.’ – Park Geun-hye

‘Politics – I still think it’s a bunch of liars and a bunch of self-interest. It’s not about the people: it’s about themselves and their rise to power. They are voting on things based on whether they will have the support of the people when they vote next time. They don’t have the balls to say, ‘I believe in this. I don’t care what happens.” – Jay-Z

‘A journalist covering politics, most of us are aware of the necessity to try to be sure we’re unbiased in our reporting. That’s one of the fundamentals of good journalism.’ – Walter Cronkite

‘It’s been a concern of mine for years that the mainstream media coverage of culture and politics takes place in two nodes, Washington and New York, and yet all the voting goes on somewhere else.’ – Walter Kirn

‘Much publishing is done through politics, friends, and natural stupidity.’ – Charles Bukowski

‘Politics has come to resemble a cynical team game played by politicians, while the public has been pushed aside as if sitting on the seats of a stadium in which passion for politics is gradually making room for blindness and desperation.’ – Edi Rama

‘Politics has always been personal for me. You know, growing up, I was in a very politically conscious household. We engaged with intellectuals and artists and academics from around the world who were thinking critically about politics and the intersection of politics and public life.’ – Chesa Boudin

‘At the end of the day, politics is meant to do good to the society.’ – N. Chandrababu Naidu

‘I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.’ – Kevin Costner

‘Al Gore’s problem, in my view, is that he never liked politics. He’s actually deeply uncomfortable in it but felt he had to do it because of his father. He’s much more comfortable in a private sector role and has, in fact, been much more successful in a private sector role, and I admire him for that.’ – Andrew Sullivan

‘My theory on politics is no one really knows how it works, so I choose not to comment on stuff too outside of my league.’ – Kyle Kinane

‘I don’t really dabble into the politics of MMA too much.’ – Robbie Lawler

‘Politics is a game and a profession. It doesn’t really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.’ – Kit Harington

‘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.’ – Herbert Hoover

‘Thanks to the great Juche idea and Songun politics of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the devoted struggle of our service personnel and other people who are unfailingly loyal to the Party, proud victories have been achieved in socialist construction and lasting foundations for accomplishing the cause of the Juche revolution have been laid.’ – Kim Jong-un

‘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.’ – Bob Barr

‘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.’ – Shinzo Abe

‘The polarization of Congress; the decline of civility; and the rise of attack politics in the 1980s, the 1990s, and the early years of the new century are a blot on our political system and a disservice to the American people.’ – Edward Brooke

‘I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I care about politics just like any other citizen. I’m against the war in Iraq, or any type of war.’ – Enrique Iglesias

‘I have certainly met much more discrimination in terms of being a woman than being black, in the field of politics.’ – Shirley Chisholm

‘At the end of the day, stories connect us, not politics. And there’s so many stories out there waiting to be told. It’s just a matter of who’s out there listening.’ – Jose Antonio Vargas

‘I engage with local politics because it affects people I love. And I engage in national politics because it affects people I love.’ – Shane Claiborne

‘It is unacceptable that Democrat leaders would rather push their divisive agenda and focus only on identity politics instead of holding hearings or doing the bipartisan, substantive work Israel needs.’ – Ronny Jackson

‘Solidarity and interdependence, a sense of worth, a pride and hope in the future: these are positive gains for those who believe in progressive politics and the beneficial role of government, rather than a detriment.’ – David Blunkett

‘The historical kings of England are all strong soldiers and leaders, but can you be a sensitive leader? It’s the same in politics, we talk about how proud we are to have had two women prime ministers, but would we be less ready for a sensitive prime minister?’ – Josh O’Connor

‘Inflammatory passion and selfish interest characterizes most men, whereas ambition characterizes men who pursue and hold national office. Such men rise from the people through a process of self-selection, since politics is a dirty business that discourages all but the most ambitious.’ – Tom Cotton

‘Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.’ – Winston Churchill

‘The best politics is no politics.’ – Henry M. Jackson

‘The first thing I didn’t understand was my life. It’s a mystery. And today I don’t understand economy or politics. I don’t know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.’ – Alejandro Jodorowsky

‘A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.’ – Theodore Roosevelt

‘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.’ – Lord Hailsham

‘We grew up in my family thinking that politics was a really fascinating way to spend one’s career and a way to be involved in the issues of the day. And certainly, my father and my relatives really loved all that.’ – John F. Kennedy Jr.

‘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.’ – Serj Tankian

‘I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago

‘Steve Jobs would have wanted his words to change not just technology but politics itself.’ – John McAfee

‘Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.’ – John Kenneth Galbraith

‘It’s a good question, because a movie isn’t good or bad based on its politics. It’s usually good or bad for other reasons, though you might agree or disagree with its politics.’ – Roger Ebert

‘One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do.’ – Bob Geldof

‘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.’ – Tammy Baldwin

‘It’s a big deal for me to say I’m over politics.’ – Shirley MacLaine

‘If I cry, it’s about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics – no, I don’t cry.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.’ – Harold MacMillan

‘Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.’ – Akshaye Khanna

‘Life is not easy in politics.’ – Viktor Orban

‘I don’t want to talk politics, but what I do say is I believe in rules and laws, and if you come to this country, you’ve got to abide by the rules here.’ – Mo Farah

‘Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.’ – Charles Edison

‘I know I’m not supposed to have any opinions about politics, because I’m famous.’ – Cher

‘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.’ – Steve Bannon

‘Politics isn’t about big money or power games; it’s about the improvement of people’s lives.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.’ – Nipsey Hussle

‘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.’ – Lee Atwater

‘Without alienation, there can be no politics.’ – Arthur Miller

‘I think people should downplay politics more, be more involved in what they do.’ – Tommy Tuberville

‘Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into ‘us’ vs. ‘them.” – John Ortberg

‘The way the Queens Democratic party machine has worked, they operate on a politics of exclusion.’ – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

‘My wife told me if there is any rumors about me, it better be about politics and not about my social life.’ – Lou Holtz

‘Ultimately, I think to be successful in fashion, you have to turn into the most incredible HR person. It’s about politics. I’m massaging egos and keeping everyone happy.’ – Jonathan Anderson

‘I believed I paved the way for Donald Trump. I brought ridiculousness to politics and he saw an opening and just jumped on in there.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘I haven’t been paying attention to politics long enough to have really smart opinions.’ – Biz Stone

‘The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.’ – George Will

‘The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.’ – Marcel Achard

‘I didn’t have any idea what politics was like. I was surprised at how difficult it is to get something done. In the private world, if I have an idea, I just do it.’ – Markwayne Mullin

‘I am not with any political party. I laugh at media reports of my entering politics.’ – Vijay

‘I try not to tune in to politics until it’s two or three months before the election. Till then, it’s like watching preseason football.’ – Trey Parker

‘My father was into politics. After his death things got slow. We were meeting different parties and everywhere I heard people grumbling and cursing politics and the state of the nation. I made an effort and I am trying to fulfill my social responsibility.’ – Vishwajeet Pradhan

‘Thanks to advancements in gender equality, you now have salty women like me who not only follow politics but also share their opinions on the daily.’ – Ana Kasparian

‘It’s not enough to say that the Olympics is an athletic contest outside of politics, because it’s not. The Chinese clearly are using the Olympics to recreate how they are viewed in the world and how they view themselves.’ – Richard Gere

‘The gun is not out of Irish politics.’ – Ian Paisley

‘We’re in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn’t want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.’ – Neil Patrick Harris

‘Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘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.’ – Saffron Burrows

‘Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.’ – Sun Yat-sen

‘Ninety percent of politics is deciding whom to blame.’ – Meg Greenfield

‘I still love following and thinking about politics. I enjoy recommending important journalism I read or see from other sources.’ – Dan Rather

‘I am in politics because every day, I get to work to make the world a little better – for my kids and for yours.’ – Justin Trudeau

‘It’s called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.’ – Stephen Leacock

‘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.’ – William Howard Taft

‘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.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘It is not right to play politics with education.’ – Rajinikanth

‘People favouring their relatives more than an outsider is what the biggest fight in democracy is, let it be in film industry or politics.’ – Ram Gopal Varma

‘Politics is not bean bags. It’s serious, tough stuff.’ – Colin Powell

‘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.’ – Thomas Huxley

‘The extremely wealthy have disproportionate influence on policies that impact us all. This corrupts our politics and leads to poorer people being denied the economic opportunity to flourish in life.’ – Winnie Byanyima

‘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.’ – Jose Mujica

‘Some of the FDA’s own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA’s actions.’ – Joseph Crowley

‘Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘People are using religion to justify horrific bias and hatred and the worship of money and what it’s done to our society and our politics.’ – Leslie Grossman

‘The twenty minutes or more we spend inside the ring, that’s the fun part. It’s the rest of our lives that’s the real battle – the ruthless backstage politics, the constant traveling, the endless mental and physical aches and pains.’ – Eddie Guerrero

‘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.’ – Pope Francis

‘The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it – politics – was important… that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.’ – Al Franken

‘I do vote, and naturally, I vote for so-called extremist parties, the further to the right the better, but that’s where my participation in politics ends.’ – Varg Vikernes

‘If you want to get things done in life, you don’t go into politics. If you want to get things done in life you go into communications. Absolutely certain.’ – Noel Edmonds

‘We have elected to put our money and faith in a mathematical framework that is free of politics and human error.’ – Tyler Winklevoss

‘Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.’ – Charles Dance

‘The BJP doesn’t believe in vote-bank politics. We believe India is above everything.’ – Amit Shah

‘I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.’ – Lech Walesa

‘I wasn’t a major in political science for nothing, so I understood the politics of beauty and the politics of race when it comes to the fashion industry.’ – Iman

‘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.’ – Garth Brooks

‘If you think of politics as ‘serious people focusing seriously on the most important questions,’ which is the default mode of most educated people and the media (but not the less-educated public which has better instincts), then your model of reality is badly wrong.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we’ve stopped listening to each other in our politics.’ – Michael Bennet

‘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?’ – George Orwell

‘I think people vote Ukip from a frustration with politics, which is legitimate, and which politicians have to listen to.’ – Sajid Javid

‘I will never join politics under any circumstances.’ – Nana Patekar

‘The idea of politics is just so uninteresting to me – I’ve never paid much attention to it. I don’t believe things can really change. It doesn’t matter who’s president. Nothing really gets resolved. I don’t know. I guess that’s not the right attitude to take.’ – Trent Reznor

‘The thing about politics is to plan 10 years ahead, and assume every year is your last.’ – Ed Balls

‘Politics is not an exact science.’ – Otto von Bismarck

‘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.’ – Chris Jordan

‘In politics, yesterday’s lie is attacked only to flatter today’s.’ – Jean Rostand

‘Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.’ – Arvind Kejriwal

‘Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.’ – E. L. Doctorow

‘A lot of people pulled me up after ‘Trainspotting’ for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.’ – Irvine Welsh

‘The worsening of relations between a declining America and an internally troubled Mexico could even give rise to a particularly ominous phenomenon: the emergence, as a major issue in nationalistically aroused Mexican politics, of territorial claims justified by history and ignited by cross-border incidents.’ – Zbigniew Brzezinski

‘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.’ – Thomas Frank

‘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.’ – Benazir Bhutto

‘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.’ – Grover Norquist

‘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.’ – John Major

‘Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.’ – Roger Scruton

‘People are tired of the politics of Donald Trump. l really do believe that.’ – Jaime Harrison

‘My parents were in high school and college in the ’80s, so let’s just say I’ve heard some stuff, man. We listen to a lot of music and watch lots of great films, but the real context they provide from that era is about politics.’ – Finn Wolfhard

‘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.’ – Bob Brown

‘I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics.’ – Molly Ivins

‘The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.’ – Chuck Palahniuk

‘If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business.’ – Charles E. Merrill

‘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.’ – James Mark Baldwin

‘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.’ – Bruno Latour

‘I had been a radical, a left-wing politico, and meeting the Indian people made me realize that the politics of the left and the right were so much less important than the politics of the heart and the spirit.’ – Larry Brilliant

‘I’m more into human nature than politics. But they’re intertwined. Obviously, I live in civilization, so politics are part of my life.’ – Bill Callahan

‘I don’t do politics.’ – Joe Wicks

‘Politics always fascinated me. In my 20s, I was involved in politics and, as I look in the mirror, not for the noblest of purposes. It was for sport.’ – Steve Schmidt

‘Politics is the art of achieving political goals – of achieving what is possible in a given situation – that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.’ – Adam Michnik

‘I always say I was a liberal, but I wasn’t active in politics. I just assumed I was a liberal because I was black and I was a woman. And I know now that sounds really foolish, but I had different priorities.’ – Candace Owens

‘The overflow of big money in politics drowns out the voices of everyday people. That is part of the conundrum in this country: The more money you have the more speech you have. That leaves everyday people out of the equation.’ – Nina Turner

‘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.’ – Thomas Sowell

‘You can’t assume anything in politics. That’s why every Saturday I walk around my district. I talk to the longshoremen in Charlestown. I listen to the people in East Boston and their concern on the airport noise. I walk down to the Star Market in Porter Square, and people tell me about meat prices.’ – Thomas P. O’Neill

‘If everybody just stops caring about politics, we’re going to lose the reins on our government.’ – Mark Manson

‘Even as an empiricist, I have to say that I believe in luck. I’ve seen it too many times in politics to let it pass by unnoticed.’ – Rick Wilson

‘Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.’ – Richard M. Nixon

‘I worked as long in a fish and chip shop as I did in Parliament. I’ve had particular experiences in politics, but they’re not my only ones, and they’re not the ones that defined me.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘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.’ – Winston Churchill

‘Spontaneous combustion of grassroots politics is the future.’ – Dick Morris

‘Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.’ – Kanye West

‘Artists know that diligence counts as much, if not more, as inspiration; in art, as in politics, patience counts as much as revolution.’ – Tony Kushner

‘One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.’ – Tonya Harding

‘I don’t follow politics. I don’t read news and I don’t watch TV.’ – Jim Breuer

‘I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies.’ – Robert Harris

‘Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.’ – Pauline Hanson

‘I just worry a lot. I’m a worrier. Michelle and Barack are really dear to me. I mean, I love them. And I don’t want to see them get hurt. Just the nature of politics is hurtful. So every time they are hurt, I get hurt. It’s a lot to ask of people, and it’s a lot to see your friends go through. It’s hard not to get emotional.’ – Valerie Jarrett

‘We need to reject any politics that targets people because of race or religion. This isn’t a matter of political correctness. It’s a matter of understanding what makes us strong. The world respects us not just for our arsenal; it respects us for our diversity and our openness and the way we respect every faith.’ – Barack Obama

‘Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.’ – Newt Gingrich

‘I actually thought Pope Paul VI was the most tragic figure in the modern church, like Lyndon Johnson was a very tragic figure in politics in some ways.’ – James Carville

‘Satire is fascinating stuff. It’s deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a drift towards satire, because it’s the only thing that makes any sense.’ – Ben Nicholson

‘The importance of satire is bringing more people to the table. There are a lot of average citizens who aren’t interested in politics and would be more interested if it’s brought to them in a comedic, funny, satirical way.’ – Bassem Youssef

‘War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.’ – Carl von Clausewitz

‘Indian democracy’s greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics.’ – Atal Bihari Vajpayee

‘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.’ – Deborah Eisenberg

‘With a good education and a solid childhood, Marie-Antoinette might have become one of the most admired women in Europe. As it was, the empress paid no attention to her youngest daughter until an accident of nuptial politics made the girl a candidate to marry the French dauphin.’ – Amanda Foreman

‘I want to stay away from politics, or else I’ll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.’ – Peter Steele

‘Politics is nothing but opportunism.’ – H. D. Kumaraswamy

‘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.’ – David Lloyd George

‘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.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘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.’ – Ralph Nader

‘Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.’ – Talib Kweli

‘There’s no room for petty grievances in politics.’ – Sergei Lavrov

‘What I was excited about was the opportunity for punters to be part of politics. The whole idea was to allow the voices of people outside this weirdo palace of Westminster to be heard. I thought the whole social media thing might be really positive.’ – Laura Kuenssberg

‘Politics has always been ugly to me, and yet I accept that as a fact of life.’ – Billy Graham

‘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.’ – Sarah Palin

‘Louisiana’s spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.’ – John Kennedy

‘We can create a new kind of politics: kinder, more respectful, but courageous, too.’ – Jeremy Corbyn

‘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.’ – Woodrow Wilson

‘I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I’m just a citizen.’ – Mo Ibrahim

‘Ah, there’s a director. Astonishing, Spike Lee. A feisty guy, but a guy who’s, I think, incredibly misunderstood. I think people review his politics or his color as opposed to his filmmaking sometimes. Because he’s a wonderful, wonderful filmmaker and a lover of the art.’ – Brian Cox

‘I’ve had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.’ – Rand Paul

‘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.’ – Denise Mina

‘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.’ – Steven Wright

‘In a sense, terrorism blossomed in the advent of television. Television promotes terrorism in religion and in politics.’ – Marilyn Manson

‘I’m really careful about not slamming my politics home in my shows, but I don’t try to hide, either. The arts can be a great way to bring people together. I don’t preach from the stage. I try to stay positive on solutions.’ – Bonnie Raitt

‘Politics is a lot like football. Both involve people working in a team. One week you can be top of the league, the next week, you might slip a place. But I’ve never for one minute wanted to give up my devotion for my team.’ – Angela Rayner

‘I taught policy and politics for seven years at a university. I told my students lobbyists are not a bad thing; they’re absolutely vital.’ – Mike Quigley

‘History and social sciences were my interests. I was always interested in knowing how societies get organized, why there is rich and poor divide, why there are classes. I was never apolitical. I think we are all political in a way. Politics decides our day-to-day life.’ – Pawan Kalyan

‘You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.’ – Walter Kirn

‘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.’ – Calvin Coolidge

‘I’m into politics – I’m interested in the election and how pissed off people get.’ – Pauly Shore

‘The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.’ – Gautam Adani

‘My publicist told me not to talk about politics but, yes, I think we have a president who stole the election.’ – Liev Schreiber

‘You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.’ – Stanley Baldwin

‘Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.’ – Vera Brittain

‘I have the kind of life where I can take my kids on trips with me. I can involve them in my work. I’ve always avoided politics because I didn’t want to make commitments that would take me away from raising these children.’ – Robert Kennedy, Jr.

‘I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.’ – Bruce Willis

‘I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn’t. I started getting really excited about politics.’ – Maxine Waters

‘I think that political marriages are subject to more strain than most precisely because of the nature of politics.’ – Tony Abbott

‘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.’ – Tom Peters

‘People use restaurants to do business, to do politics, to socialize.’ – Danny Meyer

‘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.’ – Abraham Lincoln

‘The real goal of politics has to be getting people to act on what they already know was wrong.’ – Norman Finkelstein

‘I believe politics is a team sport. That, for awful and unfortunate reasons beyond any of our control, the American system only allows, effectively, for two teams.’ – Rick Perlstein

‘In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.’ – Napoleon Bonaparte

‘There are many brilliant people in the civil service and politics.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘I hope I represent a type of politics where we bring people together, where we inspire people – and we do it with this motivation of building a world that’s better for everybody.’ – Jagmeet Singh

‘The thing that drives people more often than not is they genuinely feel that they can make a difference. So that means there are nice people in politics.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘You’ve never heard me talk about politics all that much, and it’s just – I can’t think of anybody more dangerous as president than Donald Trump. I can’t think of anything worse than with him not having a clue. I mean, could you imagine somebody who doesn’t read and doesn’t learn trying to deal with the day-to-day changes and challenges of that job?’ – Mark Cuban

‘You do the policy, I’ll do the politics.’ – Dan Quayle

‘I’d like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I’m talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I’m not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.’ – John McEnroe

‘Make-believe colors the past with innocent distortion, and it swirls ahead of us in a thousand ways in science, in politics, in every bold intention.’ – Shirley Temple

‘My dreams of NHL glory were never fulfilled so I had to settle for politics instead.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘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.’ – Nelson Mandela

‘I want to focus on crimes that affect families and not get distracted going for high-publicity cases. I want to see us move away from politics and focus more on prosecution.’ – George Brauchler

‘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.’ – Douglas Wilder

‘We’re different people. Politics and films were an ambition for Arnold, but never for me. But I would say that his contribution in broad-basing the sport can hardly be matched.’ – Dorian Yates

‘We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.’ – Gore Vidal

‘I know enough about European politics to know you’ve got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.’ – Karl Rove

‘Politics should stay out of the stadium.’ – Miroslav Klose

‘A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.’ – Robert Byrne

‘Misogyny is at the reptilian brain stem of a lot of right-wing politics.’ – Bradley Whitford

‘The idea of self-reliance is important to me, and that is echoed, in my way of thinking, by a conservative approach to politics.’ – Kelsey Grammer

‘The 2008 election settled nothing, not even for a while. Our national politics are reflecting what appears to be going on geologically, on the bottom of the oceans and beneath the crust of the Earth: the tectonic plates are moving.’ – Peggy Noonan

‘Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that’s what’s happening. They either go, or they don’t go. It’s all politics. It’s all demographics.’ – Warren Beatty

‘If I’m sure of a person and his potential in politics, and if I know he will live up to his promises, I wouldn’t mind campaigning for him. I believe in the dictum, ‘never say never.’ You never know, I might end up joining politics.’ – Arjun Rampal

‘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.’ – Max Weber

‘If resources become scarce, people tend to fight for them. This is increasing the number of people on the move and the number of people forced to move. They’re not refugees, according to the legal definition, but they represent a major humanitarian and human rights challenge, as well as a major challenge for world politics.’ – Antonio Guterres

‘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.’ – John G. Diefenbaker

‘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.’ – John Hughes

‘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.’ – Bjork

‘There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it.’ – Margaret Thatcher

‘I have a friend who’s extremely into politics, and I learned a lot from them.’ – Sophia Lillis

‘Anytime you have a relative in politics, you’re going to catch some flack from people, because that’s just part of the gig.’ – Colter Wall

‘My father was a businessman, but my mother was an intellectual. She cared about culture, politics, and philosophy, so I became interested in the protest aspect of Latin American art.’ – Jorge M. Perez

‘Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘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.’ – Hunter S. Thompson

‘It’s my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it’s important that I keep sports and politics separate.’ – Jeff Fisher

‘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.’ – Norm MacDonald

‘No one should do politics in the guise of Hindutva and teach us what Hindutva is.’ – Uddhav Thackeray

‘Power, in a nutshell, is the ability to get things done, and politics is the ability to decide which things need to be done.’ – Zygmunt Bauman

‘In politics, reform never comes before crisis.’ – Tucker Carlson

‘Politics lives in people, ideas live in people, they live in the concrete struggles that people have.’ – Ken Loach

‘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.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘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.’ – Condoleezza Rice

‘I’ve never paid attention to politics. I only have the vaguest notion of what the IRA is.’ – Nicholas Haslam

‘We must not stop speaking the truth to the radical parties because voters will follow those who speak the truth, and European politics will grow more radical, which is in nobody’s interest.’ – Viktor Orban

‘Intersectionality is not easy. It’s not as though the existing frameworks that we have – from our culture, our politics, or our law – automatically lead people to being conversant and literate in intersectionality.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.’ – Aristotle

‘Tamil people are generally considered very intelligent. But there, politics runs in a different way. Movie stars have a larger-than-life image in Tamil Nadu, and people vote for that image.’ – Jaggi Vasudev

‘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.’ – John Boyle O’Reilly

‘I just feel like I’m a very lucky person to have a new life outside of politics.’ – Ann Richards

‘Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.’ – Edmund Burke

‘Women’s bodies have become a real battleground for politics.’ – Hailey Gates

‘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.’ – Phil Robertson

‘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.’ – Emmeline Pankhurst

‘When it comes to Washington, most people tend to think first of politics. But Washington is also a geographic and physical place. It is, for instance, one of the few cities of the world where you can talk endlessly about trees.’ – Katharine Graham

‘I was really lucky that I came to puberty at a time when music and politics were completely intertwined.’ – Bob Geldof

‘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.’ – Winston Churchill

‘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.’ – Joan Baez

‘Working-class, blue-collar guys who volunteered for Vietnam were ascribed certain political beliefs. It’s time that this was redressed. It had nothing to do with politics. Once these men got to Vietnam, it was a matter of survival.’ – Michael Cimino

‘Nothing is irreparable in politics.’ – Jean Anouilh

‘As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in – gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.’ – Rebecca Solnit

‘Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn’t you know?’ – Miriam Defensor-Santiago

‘I think personality correction is necessary for successful men, like prime ministers, businessmen, politicians… it’s essential that one should keep an eye on one’s own personality. You must have seen people in politics who become chief ministers and then pass into oblivion – how egotistical they became and how pathetic they look.’ – Dilip Kumar

‘On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn’t left to the wealthy and privileged.’ – Martin Sheen

‘Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That’s what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what’s uncomfortable.’ – John David Washington

‘The richest persons in Africa are heads of state, governors and ministers. So every ‘educated’ African who wants to be rich – and there is nothing wrong with wanting to be rich – heads straight into government or politics.’ – George Ayittey

‘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.’ – James McGreevey

‘Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.’ – Jean-Paul Sartre

‘I don’t believe in politics. I only believe in my people. And my people – the ones that follow me – are Latinos. I would go with them till the end of the world.’ – Ozuna

‘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.’ – Hamilton Jordan

‘Clinton and Obama practice this politics known quaintly as the Richard Speck strategy: if you cannot take on everyone in the room at once, take them out of the room one at a time.’ – Grover Norquist

‘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.’ – Hubert H. Humphrey

‘Money has always been in politics. And I’m not sure you’d want money to be completely out of politics.’ – Bill Gates

‘I always saw politics as an expansion of my role as a mom.’ – Nancy Pelosi

‘Love is blind. My politics has been, too. I think you can fall in love with ideas, and you can fall in love with people. It’s a very subjective experience. And I’m loyal to that experience.’ – Robert Wyatt

‘We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.’ – Daniel Patrick Moynihan

‘Grass-roots politics, linking small-dollar fundraising to massive local volunteer organization, showed that it can rival the power of a right-wing machine comprising super PACs backed by entrenched interests and mega-donors.’ – Jon Ossoff

‘The one thing politicians will always vote for is more politics, so in 2000 they invented the post of mayor of London without ever really thinking what it was a mayor would do.’ – A. A. Gill

‘We talk race relations, gender politics, about what’s actually happening here in America… Winning ‘Drag Race,’ has allowed me to amplify that.’ – Bob the Drag Queen

‘Well, like in Orwell books, whom I cherish very much as an author, in classical totalitarian regimes, you always have to make people hate someone. And this hatred is all around the Russian politics.’ – Ksenia Sobchak

”The Daily Show’ took a topic – politics – which many people considered to be boring, confusing, or even annoying to learn about, and found a way to make it interesting, digestible, and fun. I believe ‘Bill Nye Saves the World’ can do the same for science.’ – Emily Calandrelli

‘You can’t talk about life without talking about politics. You have to have both. If you’re just a political person, you’re going to burn out. If you, as an artist, are just focused inward, you’re going to eventually be irrelevant.’ – Robert Adams

‘To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.’ – Vladimir Lenin

‘Yes, in the commercial world there’s room for both McDonald’s and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we’re told, it’s either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail – and which is up to you.’ – Walter Kirn

‘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.’ – Noel Gallagher

‘I don’t like politics in music.’ – Jeff Hanneman

‘I’m not saying I shouldn’t have to pay any taxes, but I shouldn’t have to pay as many as somebody that votes. I don’t vote because I don’t know anything about politics. And honestly, I can’t believe they’d let me. Isn’t that an important thing? They’ll just let me pick the president! I don’t gotta know anything!’ – Michael Che

‘In politics, when you become serious, you become a threat to somebody. And they usually aren’t too nice about it.’ – Lyndon LaRouche

‘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.’ – Recep Tayyip Erdogan

‘I feel like a lot of frustration from Americans comes from when they don’t feel like they’re being represented in politics.’ – Madison Cawthorn

‘I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on – getting to the artist, getting to the publishers – you know, politics. I just didn’t want to get mixed up in all of that.’ – Otis Blackwell

‘But transitions from the politics of violence to democratic compromise are always messy.’ – Timothy Garton Ash

‘Politics is pop. Our job as comedians – especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience – is to amplify what we think America is thinking.’ – Jimmy Fallon

‘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.’ – Tsai Ing-wen

‘My conclusion about Mr. Trump’s unsuitability for office is based on his disregard for the precept of treating others with respect, an idea that should transcend politics. Instead, he opts to mock the vulnerable and inflame prejudices by attacking ethnic and religious minorities.’ – Susan Collins

‘My concern is to keep religion and the state separated. I don’t think that religion and politics go together. When you see political decisions colored by religion, decisions that affect us all… I thought: ‘I do not want to go back to medieval times.” – Bjorn Ulvaeus

‘I hate injustice, and I can’t help but speak against it. But I don’t want to get involved in politics.’ – Serj Tankian

‘My passion in life isn’t politics. It truly is connecting to people and women.’ – Iliza Shlesinger

‘I’d just as soon not get into a discussion about Jane and her politics. I’d just as soon stick to what we’re here for, the picture.’ – Henry Fonda

‘Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.’ – Henry Adams

‘Listen, in the same way that politics and government allow people to engage in large issues, media does the same.’ – John F. Kennedy Jr.

‘In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.’ – Charlie Kirk

‘My involvement in politics was always to be the prankster and show the silliness of the situation.’ – Vermin Supreme

‘When I first ran, being a woman in politics was seen as both a negative and also a positive. You could attract more women voters, but on the other hand, a lot of men wouldn’t vote for you.’ – Tammy Duckworth

‘When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often baffled by why they are Republicans, but I enjoy the dialogue and can move beyond politics to find common ground in my personal relationships.’ – Barbra Streisand

‘Politics are well past logic. It’s entertainment.’ – Martin Shkreli

‘Politics follows the lines of physics: every action creates an equal and opposite reaction.’ – John Avlon

‘One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.’ – Lyndon B. Johnson

‘There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.’ – Imran Khan

‘I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.’ – The Weeknd

‘I am not averse to politics, but that does not mean that I am going to join politics.’ – Rahul Gandhi

‘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.’ – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

‘In addition to the decline in competition, American politics today is characterized by a growing ideological polarization between the two major political parties.’ – Thomas E. Mann

‘Politics is profoundly nonlinear.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘You know, I’m just not going to get into American politics.’ – Benjamin Netanyahu

‘I’m well aware of the pragmatism of politics.’ – Jerry Falwell

‘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.’ – Noam Chomsky

‘Friends, there is no Left in American politics.’ – Gore Vidal

‘Politics is a messy business, but campaigning prepares you for governing. It prepares you to get hit, stand strong, and, if necessary, hit back.’ – James Carville

‘Politics is a rough and tumble business. It’s not for the faint-hearted. I’ve got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process.’ – Donna Brazile

‘My life is politics, reading books and exercise.’ – Pierre Poilievre

‘I didn’t come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.’ – Tony Blair

‘Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.’ – Dwight D. Eisenhower

‘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.’ – Ronald Reagan

‘Acknowledging class was always difficult for ‘New Democrats’ – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again.’ – Thomas Frank

‘The language of politics is spoken in the first-person plural, and for Conservatives, the duty of the politician is to maintain that first-person plural in being.’ – Roger Scruton

‘It is a fine game to play – the game of politics – and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.’ – Winston Churchill

‘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.’ – Ambrose Bierce

‘The only politics in this country that’s relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution… none other.’ – H. Rap Brown

‘I’m the one who’s put myself into politics, so I’m the one that really should be wearing that front-facing role.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘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.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘A lot of people like a lot of money. They shouldn’t go into politics.’ – Jose Mujica

‘I want to point out, there are a lot of politicians who enjoy the political end of politics, but they’re not interested in governance. And then, there are some that are really interested in governance and are just terrible at politics.’ – Molly Ivins

‘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?’ – Norm MacDonald

‘Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.’ – Max Weber

‘The undue influence of money on our politics is like a cancer underlying other cancers, the issue underlying all other issues.’ – Marianne Williamson

‘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.’ – Ann Richards

‘Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.’ – P. J. O’Rourke

‘Economics is clearly a vital area of prediction for people in politics.’ – Dominic Cummings

‘Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.’ – Paul Wellstone

‘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.’ – Jay-Z

‘Politics is a rough and tumble business, and yet there seems to be an effort by the commentariat to sanitise American politics to some type of high-level Victorian debating society.’ – James Carville

‘Feminists must denounce the use of white insecurity – whether in relation to white womanhood, white neighborhoods, white politics, or white wealth – to justify the brutal assaults against black people of all genders.’ – Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

‘In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.’ – John F. Kennedy

‘Politics is the art of the next best.’ – Otto von Bismarck

‘I’m a novelist, a critic, an essayist – I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It’s a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.’ – Walter Kirn

‘There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.’ – Will Rogers

‘I think that has to do with our perception of politics. There are nice politicians. There is something about this job that does take an extra bit of motivation to get out of bed in the morning.’ – Jacinda Ardern

‘What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what’s really happening to people’s lives.’ – Molly Ivins

‘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.’ – Hunter S. Thompson