Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

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

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

By 2000 politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Forget sex or politics or religion loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

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.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

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.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives a politics that does not speak to and include people is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

To those who have exhausted politics nothing remains but abstract thought.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

There is no gambling like politics.

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

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

War has rules mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.