African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama's left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

At present our country needs women's idealism and determination perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Nobody likes you know the ugly parts of politics.

The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out do not vote or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

In politics merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised like a target to a position to be fired at.

And yet there are still people in American politics who for some reason cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along?

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.

I tend to avoid televisions politics and places with velvet ropes.

Where there is politics or economics there is no morality.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

War is the ultimate tool of politics.

The term 'the American Left' is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn't really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I don't think consensus-building politics is what I'm meant to be doing.

In politics every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.

Politics is human beings it's addition rather than subtraction.

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run you may lose. And if you tie you do not win.

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

It's really very simple Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.