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After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

~ Walt Whitman

Trouble is, we call politics a game, but it isn't one. There is no referee, and the teams make up the rules as they go along. You can't cry foul or offside in politics. Almost anything goes.

~ Michael Ignatieff

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

~ George Orwell

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

~ John F. Kennedy

There's a rule of thumb in politics. If you're at a point where you're complaining about the other guy being mean and unfair and uncivil, that's probably a sign that you're losing.

~ Laura Ingraham

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

~ Will Rogers

I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in.

~ Denise Mina

Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did.

~ Jose Antonio Vargas

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

I really don't have a lot of interest in national politics, and it's because I'm a skeptic. I think you can accomplish a lot more locally. I don't want to spin the wheels and not get anything done.

~ Ron Conway

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

~ Pawan Kalyan

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

~ Winston Churchill

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

~ Jean-Paul Sartre

The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you're rich.

~ P. J. O'rourke

Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?

~ Robert Orben

In order to have your voice be heard in Washington, you have to make some little contribution.

~ Elon Musk

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

~ Jim Hightower

What matters most in politics is personality. It's not issues it's not image. It's who you are and what you represent.

~ Frank Luntz

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.

~ John F. Kennedy

If we tried to write about politics, you'd realize that we're all a bunch of idiots.

~ Mark Hoppus

In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.

~ Youssou N'dour

Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.

~ Jack Germond

You can't not approve a merger because you don't like the companies' politics. That's just not right.

~ Blake Farenthold

You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.

~ Arundhati Roy

Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics.

~ Bill Gates

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.

~ Samuel Johnson

Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.

~ Nancy Gibbs

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.

~ George W. Bush

Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics.

~ Roger Ebert

You may think the president is all-powerful, but he is not. He needs a lot of guidance from the Lord.

~ Barbara Bush

Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.

~ Barbara Bush

I happen to think it's the politics that makes you electable, but the reason for that is politicians sometimes talk about electability as if it's just a matter of conning the public. Actually, it's a matter of persuading the public, and in my experience, usually, the public gets it right.

~ Tony Blair

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.

~ John Kenneth Galbraith

If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents.

~ Ed Koch

Well you know it's dangerous in politics, because especially in the Philippines there's a lot of killing in politics.

~ Manny Pacquiao

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

~ Ralph Nader

So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

~ James Woods

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

~ Honeysuckle Weeks

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

~ Brian Mulroney