From politics and business to music and food to culture, African-Americans have helped to shape our state's colourful past and its future.
Mary LandrieuI 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 WhiteUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
Henry KissingerWe mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai StevensonPolitics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald ReaganIdealism is the despot of thought, just as politics is the despot of will.
Mikhail A BakuninOverall 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 CampbellCompromise 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 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 McLuhanPolitics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma GoldmanPolitics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-TungIn politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAnybody who doesn't know that politics is crime has got a few screws loose. [On the true nature of politics]
James EllroyShe displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles KennedyLet 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 RichardsKeep Darwinian thinking out of cosmology, out of psychology, out of human culture, out of ethics, politics, and religion!
Daniel DennettI think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James CarvilleA baby changes your dinner party conversation from politics to poops [very pleasant thanks for that mental image Maurice!]
Maurice JohnstoneThere are no friends at cards or world politics.
Finley DunneI didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
Tony BlairDifference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics
Wendell PhillipsYou will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley BaldwinI 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 BlearsI 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 in America is the binding secular religion.
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 BlearsReturn to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door.
Richard J DaleyPolitics and war are remarkably similar situations.
Newt GingrichRadical 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 IIOne of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald TrumpI 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 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 MosleyThe bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel AchardPolitics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar AmeringerPolitics is not an exact science.
Otto Von BismarckPolitics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.
John ArlottFew 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 ForbesMaybe I wasn't as driven by politics as I thought I was.
William HagueThey 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 CameronAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De BeaumarchaisPolitics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul ValeryI have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord ByronPolitics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald ReaganI 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 BrownIn politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Roy HattersleyEngland is unrivalled for two things - sport and politics.
Benjamin DisraeliA 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 ByrneIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry SummersPublic 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 RileyThey 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 Galloway
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