I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

When we talk about safety and security of the American people, politics falls aside pretty quickly.

We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.

Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim.

Politics is not an exact science.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

They say women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday may applaud today, even for the same performance.

I can remember when Democrats believed that it was the duty of America to fight for freedom over tyranny.

I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever.

I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.

True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other side. Today's politics have become an all-or-nothing, black-or-white, zero-sum game - it's not a contact sport but a blood sport.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.

I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.

Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.

Politics 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.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

We all have our likes and our dislikes. But... when we're doing news - when we're doing the front-page news, not the back page, not the op-ed pages, but when we're doing the daily news, covering politics - it is our duty to be sure that we do not permit our prejudices to show. That is simply basic journalism.

Morality binds people into groups. It gives us tribalism, it gives us genocide, war, and politics. But it also gives us heroism, altruism, and sainthood.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.

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.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

I am a sportsman and not a politician. I am a sportsman and will always remain one. I am not going to enter politics giving up cricket, which is my life. I will continue to play cricket.

Kennedy was like a rock star. Carter was the earnest outsider at the height of Washington cynicism. Clinton was a bad boy who proposed his 'third way' of Democratic politics, and Obama brought hope and change to a country that so desperately needed it.

Hillary Clinton has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. She ran the State Department like her own personal hedge fund - doing favors for oppressive regimes, and many others, in exchange for cash.

No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles.