They 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 have certainly not got re-elected to retire, and I shall certainly start trying to push my influence in politics as far as I possibly can
Kenneth ClarkePolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-TungUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry KissingerA week is a long time in politics.
Harold WilsonThe more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other
Will RogersMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeConfound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry CareyI was actually smiling, talking to one of my colleagues about my new baby... It was nothing to do with politics [on grinning in his car]
Gordon BrownWe mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai StevensonI agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.
John AdamsI thought it would be a good idea to go into Politics, maybe I am a little old... but you know... I'd love to be Chancellor of the Exchequer - That way I'll be united with my money!
Ken DoddPolitics is the art of the next best.
Otto Von BismarckYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S TrumanAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyThe movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy ReaganI think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James CarvilleThe 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 DiefenbakerHe made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
John PrescottThere are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
GalbraithI don't think at my age... you can start ruling people out in politics.
Kenneth ClarkePolitics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose BiercePolitics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
William Howard TaftCompromise 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 LowellPolitics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
Michael HeseltineEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliWe put the politics of conscience in the spot light.
Andrew NeilNone of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics
David BlunkettYou begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles BukowskiIn 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 ManningFew 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 ForbesConscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley SheridanNo science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob BronowskiPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganThere are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario CuomoGrowing 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 AmisTurn on, tune in, and drop out (The Politics of Ecstacy)
Timothy LearyShe displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles KennedyHe brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
Aneurin BevanPolitics 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 McLuhanThe flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H WhiteIn politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight
Neville ChamberlainA baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Maurice JohnstoneOne 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 JohnsonA 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 HainI am in politics because I have a strong belief in the equal worth of every child.
Ruth KellyYou soon get thick skinned when you are in politics, but you do not have to be thick skinned to be involved in politics at every level.
Mike HuckabeeI am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret ThatcherThere's a hell of a lot of politics in football.
Tommy DochertyFirst 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 Rumsfeld
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