In politics nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way.

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.

In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.

Politics is almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once but in politics many times.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow next week next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

I was losing interest in politics when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.

Politics is for the present but an equation is for eternity.

I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

Turn on to politics or politics will turn on you.

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

In politics nothing is contemptible.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

Politics it seems to me for years or all too long has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

Politics have no relation to morals.