Turn on, tune in, and drop out (The Politics of Ecstacy)
Timothy LearyThe word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'
Larry HardimanIn politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight
Neville ChamberlainI think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James CarvilleI don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
Kenneth ClarkeA 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 HainA typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore RooseveltWe 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 BebelConfound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry CareyWe 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 JacksonKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettPolitics is not my domain. Charity, and charity alone, is my obsession.
Sister Consuelo MurphyI'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 in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherSometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.
Joe CannonPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest BennThe flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H WhiteWith the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H WhiteDoing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
Hazel BlearsI have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord ByronThe 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 JenkinsPolitics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
GalbraithPolitics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry AdamsFew 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 put the politics of conscience in the spot light.
Andrew NeilThey 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 CameronI'm not a politician of your ordinary type. Most politicians - and most politics - are boring.... I don't think I am boring
George GallowayPolitics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry JacksonI'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 StevensonA baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Maurice JohnstonePolitics 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 McLuhanIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H G WellsThe challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hilary ClintonPolitics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
Ronald ReaganYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S TrumanOne lesson you'd better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the president.
Lyndon JohnsonGood government is good politics.
Richard J DaleyI 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 BlearsThe art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad AdenauerThe bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel AchardPolitics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi AminPolitics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund BurkeFrom politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Mary LandrieuMaybe I wasn't as driven by politics as I thought I was.
William HagueConscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley SheridanSo the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology
Daniel YerginI am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.
Ruth KellyThose who would tread politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other
John MorleyLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckLet me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Ann Richards
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