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“I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.”
Groucho Marx
“Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.”
Groucho Marx
“In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?”
Barack Obama
“There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.”
Barack Obama
“Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.”
Barack Obama
“I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.”
Barack Obama
“The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.”
Marilyn Manson
“Politics have no relation to morals.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.”
Michelle Obama
“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”
Colin Powell
“Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.”
Colin Powell
“Radical 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 II
“The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.”
Mitt Romney
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
Ronald Reagan
“Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.”
Ronald Reagan
“Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
Ronald Reagan
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
Ronald Reagan
“Politics 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 Reagan
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.”
Henry Rollins
“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
William Blake
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.”
Jonathan Swift
“One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.”
Donald Trump
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.”
Walt Whitman
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
John Adams
“In politics the middle way is none at all.”
John Adams
