When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim HightowerAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyI think he needs time to think about the contribution he can make - I think he can make a very big contribution to British politics [on defeated elder brother David]
Ed MilibandThere's a hell of a lot of politics in football.
Tommy DochertyThey 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'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 CoorsWe 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 JacksonMaybe I wasn't as driven by politics as I thought I was.
William HaguePolitics 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 WilsonOverall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]
Sir Menzies CampbellUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry KissingerThere are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival.
John CoryI think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James CarvilleThere are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics.
Margaret ThatcherHistory is past politics, and politics is present history (Methods of Historical Study)
E A FreemanRadical 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 IIMen enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
C Northcote ParkinsonPolitics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
Michael HeseltineConscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley SheridanA baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Maurice JohnstoneI have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord ByronSometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.
Joe CannonThere are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley DunnePublic 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 RileyThe Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics]
Clare ShortConfound their politics,
Frustrate their knavish tricks.
Henry CareyPolitics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma GoldmanNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto Von BismarckLet 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 RichardsWe mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai StevensonWar is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means (Vom Kriege)
Karl Von ClausewitzThe word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'
Larry HardimanWhen we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly
Bill FristMediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. [Does that explain politicians?]
Hans EnzensbergerPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest BennEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliPolitics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
William Howard TaftLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckWith the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H WhiteTurn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph NaderIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry SummersWe put the politics of conscience in the spot light.
Andrew NeilThe flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H WhiteIn 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 ManningSo the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology
Daniel YerginNothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean AnouilhPolitics is the art of the next best.
Otto Von BismarckPolitics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.
John ArlottIn politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A ButlerI'm not a politician of your ordinary type. Most politicians - and most politics - are boring.... I don't think I am boring
George Galloway
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