I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T S EliotI 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 BrownTurn on, tune in, and drop out (The Politics of Ecstacy)
Timothy LearyPolitics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
Jim HightowerWith the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.
Theodore H WhiteI have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold McMillanA 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 HainWhen I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
Jim HightowerConscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
Richard Brinsley SheridanUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry KissingerIt will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E AllenThe argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuble argument in modern politics.
Emmeline PankhurstShe worked hard to be as inclusive as possible and encouraged those who were at the edge of society and politics to become involved to change things for the better [on Mo Mowlam]
Peter HainYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S TrumanCompromise 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 LowellAn Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai StevensonThe art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
Konrad AdenauerThe movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy ReaganOne of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald TrumpPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganThe politics of the left and centre of the country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould.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 JenkinsNothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean AnouilhIdealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail A BakuninPolitics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De GaulleThere are some remarkable parallels between basketball and politics.
Margaret ThatcherLike religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma BombeckWe mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai StevensonI happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore H WhiteKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettThe 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 DiefenbakerThe bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel AchardPolitics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry AdamsPolitics in America is the binding secular religion.
Theodore H WhiteA 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 ByrneReturn to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Richard J DaleyI 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 DoddHe brings to the fierce struggle of politics the tepid enthusiasm of a lazy summer afternoon at a cricket match
Aneurin BevanIt is not telling the truth that makes politics seem negative, that makes people think all politicians do not tell the truth.
Michael HowardThere's a hell of a lot of politics in football.
Tommy DochertyGood government is good politics.
Richard J DaleyRobin 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 HowardPolitics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.
John ArlottWe 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 BebelNone of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics
David BlunkettIn politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheIf 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 GandhiI 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 MilibandI think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James CarvilleFirst 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 RumsfeldIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry Summers
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