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They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge
— George Galloway
The world is governed by opinion.
— William Ellery Channing
There's no point in getting into politics at all unless you plan to lash things around.
— Hunter S. Thompson
Politician? Me? Do I look like a big mouth with large pockets?
— Florian Armas
The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics.
— Theodore Roosevelt
He found Washington at once august and disgusting.
— John Taliaferro
Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.
— John Maynard Keynes
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
Relationships are so much like the United States - they only really thrive when faced with an external threat.
— Laura Pedersen
I've come to believe that, fundamentally, art matters more than politics.
— John Luther Adams
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
— Benjamin Franklin
We do not hold that doctrine gives rise to awakening but rather that the individual awakenings come first.
— Haruki Murakami
You can't eat politics, you can't sell them, and you can't sleep with them,' Drake liked to say. So you might as well make money out of them.
— John Le Carre
Citizens are starting not to excuse political candidates who have web sites that do nothing but throw virtual confetti.
— David Weinberger
The first principle of economic symmetry: building the economic power to consume simultaneously with the industrial power to produce.
— Louis O. Kelso
Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
— E. Franklin Frazier
Politics makes strange post-masters.
— Kin Hubbard
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
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
— Richard M. Nixon
I say one evil empire down ... one to go.
— Michael Moore
Pennsylvania is a very tough state; people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.
— Arlen Specter
He liked radical politics and had a fondness for chocolate.
— Laura Kinsale
My parents are apolitical - no bumper stickers, no yard signs. They don't talk about politics.
— Joel Burns
I am the Jesus Christ of politics. I am a patient victim, I put up with everyone, I sacrifice myself for everyone.
— Silvio Berlusconi
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
The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.
— Robert Reich
Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously; equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
— Charles Kennedy
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
Every aspect of the world today - even politics and international relations - is affected by chemistry.
— Linus Pauling
Those who become princes through their skill acquire the pricipality with difficulty, buy they hold onto it with ease.
— Niccolo Machiavelli
My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again.
— Stephen Colbert
The politics of crime is not about a party's record or a candidates proposals, but about perceived character and values.
— Susan Estrich
The moment politics becomes dull, democracy is in danger.
— Lord Hailsham
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
I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth.
— Miriam Makeba
Prolific irony - For 8 years, the finger on the button that could end the world belonged to a president who couldn't pronounce the word nuclear.
— T. Rafael Cimino
Law and order are the medicine of the politic body and when the politic body gets sick, medicine must be administered.
— B.R. Ambedkar
I am genuinely not an over-the-top kind of person about politics or anything else.
— Charles Kennedy
Democracy is disruptive ... there is no right in a democratic civil society to be free of disruption.
— Naomi Wolf
On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.
— Bob Dylan
The way to a landowner's heart was to tax gently.
— Peter Heather
Any inquiry into politics is an inquiry into faith.
— Michael Davidow
What politicians want to create is irreversible change because when you leave office someone changes it back again.
— Estelle Morris
Like the archers of Agincourt, John O'Neal and the 254 Swiftboat Veterans took down their own haughty Frenchman.
— Ann Coulter
Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.
— Kinky Friedman
It is not our politicians who will lead the change. The only person who can change our politics is the engaged citizen.
— Graham Steele
Revolutions are infinite.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
When we accept bad art because it's good politics, we're killing the swan to feed the chickens.
— Tom Robbins
A nation is a detour of nature to arrive at five or six great men- yes, and then to get around them.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Demagogue
a vessel containing beer and other liquids. — Mark Twain
a vessel containing beer and other liquids. — Mark Twain
Everyone should own a piece of the wealth-producing capital of this country, but not everyone can be a manager. Or should be.
— Louis O. Kelso
God bless our good and gracious King,
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one. — John Wilmot
Whose promise none relies on;
Who never said a foolish thing,
Nor ever did a wise one. — John Wilmot
The man who sees absolutes, where all other men see nuances and shades of meaning, is either a prophet, or a quack.
— Keith Olbermann
The President's post should not be politicised. Once a president is elected, he is above politics.
— A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics.
— Justina Machado
The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.
— Christopher Hitchens
To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
— Hubert H. Humphrey
And the greatest tragedy of our age is we don't listen to our consciences. We don't say what we think. We feel one thing and do another.
— Vasily Grossman
Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.
— George McGovern
If a person trusts you and you deceive him, it's fraud. If a person doesn't trust you, it's politics.
— Gurazada Apparao
The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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 don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them.
— Steven Wright
Politics is a potent way to empower women.
— Preneet Kaur
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
That eugenics was part of the progressive agenda is one of the most heavily-airbrushed features of history.
— Arnold Kling