The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

In politics as in poetry it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

Politics is too partisan and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.

The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.

It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience decency politeness and courtesy.

Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics religion virtually anything.

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

The movies were custard compared to politics.

Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor but I also feel like I'm contributing whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.

Let me tell you sisters seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

At the end of the day money is just a proxy for votes. That is what makes politics so vulnerable to social media.

I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more.

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Politics isn't about big money or power games it's about the improvement of people's lives.

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

It is money money money! Not ideas not principles but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

My mom is like this hard-core liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.