Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

I am a teacher. It's how I define myself. A good teacher isn't someone who gives the answers out to their kids but is understanding of needs and challenges and gives tools to help other people succeed. That's the way I see myself, so whatever it is that I will do eventually after politics, it'll have to do a lot with teaching.

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party.

The unique thing about our country is that we have Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, and people of all other religions. We have temples and mosques, gurdwaras and churches. But we do not bring all this into politics... This is the difference between India and Pakistan.

Bad politicians are sent to Washington by good people who don't vote.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The secret of getting things done is to act!

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.

When politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.

Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The most important political office is that of the private citizen.

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?

If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.

I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion.

I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

The revolution is a dictatorship of the exploited against the exploiters.

Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least.

Everything is politics.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

Voting is a civic sacrament.

As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog.

The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.

Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality.

Globalization and trade liberalization were supposed to make us all better off through the mechanism of trickle-down economics. What we seemed to be seeing instead was trickle-up economics, accompanied by a destruction of democratic politics, as we moved ever closer to a system of 'one dollar, one vote' as opposed to 'one person, one vote.'

All the president is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing, and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy.

I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomfortable making political opinions - there's consequences to them. I often think I'm wrong, so I really don't like getting in political or religious discussions because of the giant possibility that I might be wrong.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.