I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon JohnsonPolitics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry JacksonConfound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry CareyWar is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means (Vom Kriege)
Karl Von ClausewitzAn Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai StevensonPolitics is the art of the next best.
Otto Von BismarckPolitics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
GalbraithThe flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H WhiteIdealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail A BakuninI have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord ByronShe worked hard to be as inclusive as possible and encouraged those who were at the edge of society and politics to become involved to change things for the better [on Mo Mowlam]
Peter HainShe displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles KennedyPolitics 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 ReaganPolitics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.
John ArlottWith the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H WhiteEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliIn politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Roy HattersleyThose who would tread politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other
John MorleyI'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 CoorsUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
Henry KissingerThe more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other
Will RogersIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry SummersI am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
Sir Oswald MosleyIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H G WellsI am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.
Ruth KellyAmerica is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
David BrooksPolitics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma GoldmanPolitics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
Larry FlyntThere are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
GalbraithWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur MillerThe politics of the left and centre of the country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken? (speech, 1980)
Roy JenkinsFirst 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 RumsfeldGood government is good politics.
Richard J DaleyWe put the politics of conscience in the spot light.
Andrew NeilThe challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hilary ClintonI didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Tony BlairThe bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel AchardTurn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph NaderNo science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob BronowskiSeb Coe is a Yorkshireman. So he's a complete bastard and will do weill in politics.
Daley ThompsonYou begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles BukowskiOverall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]
Sir Menzies CampbellPolitics 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 McLuhanA blend of continuity and change which is a difficult balancing act to strike in politics [on what GB will bring to the leadership of the Labour party]
Liam ByrneYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S TrumanI agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.
John AdamsI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherPolitics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi AminWe made a promise to ourselves at the beginning of the process that we weren't going to put any of our own politics, our own messages or our own themes into these movies. What we were trying to do was to analyze what was important to Tolkien and to try to honor that. In a way, we were trying to make these films for him, not for ourselves.
Peter JacksonIn politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A Butler
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