In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed than for those who deny the whole of it.
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
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.
It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling and waiting for traces of blood to appear in the water.
In Pakistan politics is hereditary.
I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.
Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Politics as the word is commonly understood are nothing but corruptions.
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.
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing economics politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.
As a black woman my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
From politics it was an easy step to silence.
I have no consistency except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
I guess you'd call me an independent since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves no matter what the party label.
If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles come and join this campaign.
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
First I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.
The functions of these elders therefore determine the power of the people for a representative is one chosen by others to do in their name what they are entitled to do in their own persons or rather to exercise the powers which radically inhere in those for whom they act.