'If you're writing songs, there are two things that you just don't write about: politics and religion. We write about both.'
BonoIn 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 ManningThey 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 GallowayYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S TrumanRadical 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 IIWhatever I do afterwards [after politics], it has to have real purpose to it
Tony BlairThere are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
GalbraithWe need the highest activity, true workers politics!
Otto BraunIn argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
Walter LandorI agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.
John AdamsI seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon JohnsonIn politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A ButlerRobin Cook's contribution to British politics was immense. He was a politician of principle who fought hard for the things he believed in. He will be greatly missed. [on Robin Cook]
Michael HowardWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur MillerDoing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
Hazel BlearsHe made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
John PrescottNothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
GalbraithNo science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob BronowskiIn politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Roy HattersleyIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry SummersA blend of continuity and change which is a difficult balancing act to strike in politics [on what GB will bring to the leadership of the Labour party]
Liam ByrnePolitics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
William Howard TaftPolitics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry JacksonSeb Coe is a Yorkshireman. So he's a complete bastard and will do weill in politics.
Daley ThompsonMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeThe art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad AdenauerAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisOne of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald TrumpPolitics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.
Michael HeseltineIf 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 GandhiNever believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
Otto Von BismarckThe movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy ReaganUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry KissingerOverall 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 CampbellWe mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai StevensonPolitics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis StevensonMaybe I wasn't as driven by politics as I thought I was.
William HagueI'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 CoorsYou begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles BukowskiWe 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 JacksonHe brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
Aneurin BevanA 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 HainPolitics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi AminGrowing 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 AmisI am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
Sir Oswald MosleyHistory is past politics, and politics is present history (Methods of Historical Study)
E A FreemanIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H G WellsKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettWar is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means (Vom Kriege)
Karl Von ClausewitzPolitics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
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