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There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around. — Hunter S. Thompson

In business, politics and in life in general competition means the survival of the fittest — Bangambiki Habyarimana

The rules of the game in Alabama politics is that no matter the provocation, no matter the justification, you take your whippings gracefully. — Bob Ingram

It turns out that it's easier to do politics in a movie. People really don't want it in their TV. — Doug Liman

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn. — Lawrence Summers

The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics. — Theodore Roosevelt

I don't think at my age ... you can start ruling people out in politics. — Kenneth Clarke

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun. — R. Buckminster Fuller

Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century - in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives. — Jamais Cascio

The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It's between two horrible shades of gray. — Peter Thorneycroft, Baron Thorneycroft

The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss. — Barack Obama

In 'Healing the Soul of America,' I wrote about Gandhi's notion of soul force in politics and why it matters to stand on your truth. — Marianne Williamson

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial. — Erma Bombeck

The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. — Benjamin Franklin

I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form. — Winston Churchill

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men. — George Jean Nathan

Good intentions are ubiquitous in politics; what is scarce is accurate beliefs. — Bryan Caplan

In volunteer politics, a builder can build faster than a destroyer can destroy. — Morton Blackwell

Courage is indispensible because in politics not life but the world is at stake. — Hannah Arendt

The warehouse cat was always the aggressor, while the attic cat was ultimately the victor, just as in politics. — Anne Frank

A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics. — Howard Fineman

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. — Peter Jennings

We are not in politics to ignore peoples' worries, we are in politics to deal with them. — Margaret Thatcher

Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life. — E. Franklin Frazier

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that. — Yoshihiko Noda

In a competition for mates a well developed capacity for self-deception is an advantage. The same is true in politics and and other contexts — John Gray

I'm a longtime believer in the old adage that sunlight is the best disinfectant, particularly in politics. — Mike Quigley

In politics a week is a very long time. — Harold Wilson

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation. — Kim Dotcom

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics isn't in my nature. — Bernard Malamud

When men in politics are together, testosterone poisoning makes them insane. — Peggy Noonan

In politics it commonly takes a superior woman to overcome the handicap of traditional prejudice. — Bertha Knight Landes

Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics. — Arlen Specter

I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass. — Ronald Reagan

There was plenty of evidence that Saddam had nuclear weapons, by the way. That is not in dispute. There is plenty of evidence of that. — Christopher Dodd

In politics people throw themselves, as on a sickbed, from one side to the other in the belief they will lie more comfortably. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

In politics, an organized minority is a political majority. — Jesse Jackson

Circumstances in the world of politics contribute substantially to whether or not you can be successful. — Willie Brown

The problem with the Tea Party is they're all ignorant hillbillies who drink moonshine and ride around on mules. And they believe in stereotypes too. — Jon Stewart

We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure. — Narendra Modi

All dreams of empire end because day breaks in the hearts of the slaves used to build it. — Luke Montgomery

Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that. — James Hansen

Tolerance is an admirable intellectual gift; but it is of little worth in politics. — Woodrow Wilson

In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right. — Nate Silver

Foreign policy is conducted for the convenience and enjoyment of people in Washington. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Once politics become a tug-of-war for shares in the income pie, decent government is impossible. — Friedrich August Von Hayek

Everything is fair and possible in love, war, and politics. — Chandana Roy

In your heart there is innocence waiting to be free. — Ray Davies

I ... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party. — Harvey Weinstein

Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow. — Winston Churchill

Politics goes in one ear and out the other. I don't even know the president's name for sure. That's how stupid I am. — Brian Wilson

The American political experience can therefore be viewed as optimism in the collective. — Michael J. Fox

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times. — Mark Twain

People, whatever religion or branch they belonged to, were noble - but only if they didn't let politics get in between and ruin things. — Sarah Salem

When something really comes from the soul, I think it has a truth that you cannot find in politics. — Frank Rich

Of all sciences there is none where first appearances are more deceitful than in politics. — David Hume

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. — Frank Lautenberg

Power does not corrupt; it merely elevates the degree in which something is done that has already been pursued. — Felix O. Hartmann

I wasnt political in order to be political — Jerzy Grotowski

During my training I was trained in Psycho-politics. This was the art of capturing the minds of a nation through brainwashing and fake mental health. — Kenneth Goff

In this country American means white. Everybody else has to hyphenate. — Toni Morrison

I don't think you're going to be a success in anything if you think about losing, whether it's in sports or in politics. — Edward Kennedy

The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger. — Lord Hailsham

I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Art is like politics. Any theory carried too far ends in sterility, and freshness is only gained by following some other line. — Amy Lowell

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. — Jane Campion

The revolution in global communications thus forces all nations to reconsider traditional ways of thinking about national sovereignty. — George Shultz

In art as in politics we must deal with people as they are not as we wish them to be. Only by working with the real can you get closer to the ideal. — Rita Mae Brown

Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did. — George McGovern

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. — Robert Reich

Talent is really important in politics, but experience is also really important. — Nicola Sturgeon

I think we all have a tendency to feel like, "Well, what can I do? I can't influence the government or politics in my country." — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

People don't like him (John Poindexter) for the same reason they don't like me ... If you get things done in this bureaucracy you step on toes. — Oliver North

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game. — Bob Dylan

When I joined politics, I was arrested in Luanshya ... In 1960, I was with great people like Justine Chimba, Mazimba from Ndola and Dingiswayo Banda. — Michael Sata

In politics, the fruit always turns sour before it can turn ripe. — Marty Rubin

If u want to work in Corporate, then u should know how to play Chess. — Honeya

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all. — Ben Stein

I learned early on, stay away from politics, stay away from religion and don't talk about sports. Those three right there will get you in trouble. — Gabriel Iglesias

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme. — Roy Hattersley

You can have solid third party politics, but the problem is you're all lumped in to all the fringe groups. That's a stereotype that happens. — Jesse Ventura

We shall together open the doors of good politics and will work without indulging in political untouchability. — Narendra Modi

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
- Plato — Sienna Wilder

I feel much more comfortable in politics than I did in book writing. Book writing is so hard. Politics felt easy compared to that. — Zephyr Teachout

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons. — Joseph Cannon

Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption. — Naomi Wolf

In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons. — Mary McCarthy

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. — Rutherford B. Hayes

I'm not the smartest fellow in the world, but I can sure pick smart colleagues. — Franklin D. Roosevelt

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men. — Edmund Burke

People took politics seriously in those days. They used to begin storing up rotten eggs weeks before an election. — George Orwell

I'm not entirely sure what my end goal is, but I'd love to get involved in city politics and broadcast TV. — Holly Madison

I believe in public funding of elections, absolutely. But this system iscurrently very antiquated and no longer applies to modern day politics. — Bernie Sanders

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics. — Michael Bennett

There's a hell of a lot of politics in football. — Tommy Docherty

Citizens are all equal in politics: we each have one vote. — Elayne Boosler

In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Without the political parties and the volunteering work of their members day in, day out, we would have a very different sort of politics and society. — David Blunkett