When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.

When you are honest in your comedy, you have to acknowledge the world that you're in. Through a comedic voice, you're talking about what needs to be talked about, whether it's race relations or politics or anything that's happening on a global or an American scale.

Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance.

There might be some serious fun in politics.

I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.

Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good.

The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

I have learned, in my life and work as a sportswriter, that big-time Sports and big-time Politics are not so far apart in America. They are both a means to the same end, which is victory... And why not? Victory is good for you, and don't let anybody tell you different.

Identity politics preaches a splintering of one large, collaborative group into competing vindictive ones - resulting in new, angry tribes whose central thesis is to not cooperate.

Politics is applesauce.

The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life.

What we call politics now and what most political writers write about is the empathy and the bonding and the word choice and the horse rights, and it has nothing to do with what's really happening to people's lives.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.

He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.

India has never played politics with national security.

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

Next to courage, willpower is the most important thing in politics.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good.

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

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.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

When feminism does not explicitly oppose racism, and when anti-racism does not incorporate opposition to patriarchy, race and gender politics often end up being antagonistic to each other, and both interests lose.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

When I came into politics I always thought there was a possibility I would be killed.

If I use Facebook to stay in touch with my high school friends who are church-going Republicans, I may be getting more ideological diversity than in hanging out with secular progressives on the World Politics sub-reddit.

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

Chicago is known for good steaks, expensive stores and beautiful architecture. Unfortunately, the Windy City also enjoys a reputation for corrupt politics, violent crime, and some of the strictest gun control laws anywhere in the country.

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?