The challenge in working in politics particularly if you're working for a political party is that everyone's a messenger.

There's people coming in who've never done any politics at all who've never been in a trade union they've never been in a political party they've never done anything but they do feel a kind of urgency.

Newt Gingrich is one of the brightest people in the Republican Party and he's always been a little unorthodox in his approach to politics but that's what makes him Newt Gingrich.

Right now we have no possibility of politics because we have a one-party state.

I will go to the next election saying to Australians vote for me vote for the Liberal Party and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition.

The tax issue is the most powerful issue in American politics going back to the Tea Party. People say 'Oh Grover Norquist has power.' No. Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform focus on the tax issue. The tax issue is a powerful issue.

I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more.

I've never worked in politics never been a member of an official committee or a political party.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.

The Labour party has done more than any other to address gender inequalities through legislation and other means and to increase women's representation in politics which has led to recent increases in the number of female politicians.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.

The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate consultant pundit and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.

I honestly believe that there's an element in this country in our politics that does not want to see a businessman succeed at getting the nomination for the Republican party and does not want me to succeed at becoming President of the United States of America.

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.

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.

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.

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.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

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

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.

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

Our party is a diverse one as is my home state of Illinois.

I always voted at my party's call and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.