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I think we do need a long term settlement for political funding in this country otherwise, you know, politics costs money, and this kind of thing is going to happen again and again
Hazel Blears

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is a temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship
James Russell Lowell

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Richard J Daley

England is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin Disraeli

There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival.
John Cory

A sporting system is the by-product of society and its political system, and it is just boyhood dreaming to suppose you can ever take politics out of sport.
Peter Hain

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H White

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis

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

A baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Maurice Johnstone

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
Galbraith

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

If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake.
Mahatma Gandhi

Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C Northcote Parkinson

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. [Does that explain politicians?]
Hans Enzensberger

Those who would tread politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other
John Morley

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle

I've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.
Pete Coors

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T S Eliot

'If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.'
Bono

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S Truman

Confound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry Carey

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt Gingrich

Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean Anouilh

He brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
Aneurin Bevan

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin

I'm not a politician of your ordinary type. Most politicians - and most politics - are boring.... I don't think I am boring
George Galloway

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.
John Adams

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto Von Bismarck

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

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

In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuble argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E Allen

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
Jim Hightower

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter Landor

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

Keep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel Dennett

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

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

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
Hazel Blears

She displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles Kennedy

Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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

In politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A Butler

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Galbraith

Politics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry Jackson

Politics is not my domain. Charity, and charity alone, is my obsession.
Sister Consuelo Murphy



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