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 BlearsPolitics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul ValeryCompromise 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 LowellReturn to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Richard J DaleyEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliThere are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival.
John CoryA 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 HainWith the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H WhiteGrowing 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 AmisRadical 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 IIA baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Maurice JohnstoneThere are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
GalbraithI have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold McMillanIf 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 GandhiMen enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C Northcote ParkinsonMediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. [Does that explain politicians?]
Hans EnzensbergerThose who would tread politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other
John MorleyPolitics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De GaulleI'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 CoorsI 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.'
BonoYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S TrumanConfound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry CareyPolitics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt GingrichNothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean AnouilhHe brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
Aneurin BevanPolitics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi AminI'm not a politician of your ordinary type. Most politicians - and most politics - are boring.... I don't think I am boring
George GallowayI agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.
John AdamsNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto Von BismarckThe sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold NiebuhrI didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Tony BlairIn politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoethePolitics 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 AmeringerThe argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuble argument in modern politics.
Emmeline PankhurstIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenPolitics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
Jim HightowerIn argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter LandorTurn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph NaderKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkePolitics 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 ReaganDoing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
Hazel BlearsShe displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles KennedyConscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley SheridanThe bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel AchardIn politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A ButlerPolitics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
GalbraithPolitics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry JacksonPolitics is not my domain. Charity, and charity alone, is my obsession.
Sister Consuelo Murphy
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