They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge
George GallowayI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherIn their obsession with turning comedy into a branc of left wing politics, they forgot that the only point of comedy is to make people laugh.
Bernard ManningWhen I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim HightowerHe brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
Aneurin BevanAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisMaybe I wasn't as driven by politics as I thought I was.
William HagueUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
Henry KissingerPolitics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry JacksonThey took us out to dinner and interrogated us in a friendly way about life in England and what we thought and politics [on an apparent KGB interview he had!]
David CameronWe 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 JacksonI think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James CarvilleI agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.
John AdamsPolitics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul ValeryIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H G WellsIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenThe 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 DiefenbakerConfound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry CareyI didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Tony BlairThe sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold NiebuhrSeb Coe is a Yorkshireman. So he's a complete bastard and will do weill in politics.
Daley ThompsonThe 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 JenkinsReturn to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Richard J DaleyPolitics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow WilsonFew businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm ForbesWe 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 BebelI'm not a politician of your ordinary type. Most politicians - and most politics - are boring.... I don't think I am boring
George GallowayIn politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A ButlerI don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
Kenneth ClarkeLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckI'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 CoorsPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund BurkeIn politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheNothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean AnouilhConscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley SheridanPolitics 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 ReaganIn argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter LandorPolitics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi AminI have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold McMillanKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettHistory is past politics, and politics is present history (Methods of Historical Study)
E A FreemanThe challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hilary ClintonWith the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H WhiteTurn on, tune in, and drop out (The Politics of Ecstacy)
Timothy LearyIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry SummersThere are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley DunneThe bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel AchardMen enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C Northcote ParkinsonWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller'If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.'
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