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None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics
David Blunkett

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

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

We put the politics of conscience in the spot light.
Andrew Neil

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
Henry Kissinger

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

Robin Cook's contribution to British politics was immense. He was a politician of principle who fought hard for the things he believed in. He will be greatly missed. [on Robin Cook]
Michael Howard

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

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

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Tocqueville

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

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams

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

Whatever I do afterwards [after politics], it has to have real purpose to it
Tony Blair

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

A 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 Byrne

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

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
Michael Heseltine

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

The movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy Reagan

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

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
William Howard Taft

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon Johnson

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

There are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley Dunne

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
August Bebel

America 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 Brooks

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

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'
Larry Hardiman

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

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

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

We need the highest activity, true workers politics!
Otto Braun

I don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
Kenneth Clarke

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

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

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad Adenauer

He made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
John Prescott

I wish he did his politics like his bowling. He would be a lot easier to beat. [on Prime Minister John Howard's offbreaks.]
Mark Latham

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

Idealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail A Bakunin

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics]
Clare Short

Seb Coe is a Yorkshireman. So he's a complete bastard and will do weill in politics.
Daley Thompson

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

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

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

From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Mary Landrieu

Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto Von Bismarck



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