What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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.
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture not politics that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
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.
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics in religion in philosophy as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues and politics itself is a mass of lies evasions folly hatred and schizophrenia.
It is easier for women to succeed in business the arts and politics in America than in Europe.
In politics women type the letters lick the stamps distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
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 is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
One of the things that's great about New York is that it is not a one-industry town. It has education academia the service industry arts publishing theater politics fashion finance as well as movie-making.
I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.
The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.