To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings as traitors... I mean it.

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.

I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking.

Politics is applesauce.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Before I went to jail I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

The more you observe politics the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Politics is like football if you see daylight go through the hole.

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe and which mean very little.