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A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore Roosevelt on politics

Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole.
John F. Kennedy on politics

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 on politics

Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
Aristotle on politics

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
Hunter S. Thompson on politics

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?
Barack Obama on politics

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
Robert Frost on politics

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte on politics

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw on politics

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.
John Adams on politics

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.
Theodore Roosevelt on politics

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell on politics

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.
Will Rogers on politics

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.
Nelson Mandela on politics

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.
George Orwell on politics

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.
Will Rogers on politics

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.
Barack Obama on politics

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma Bombeck on politics

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.
Hunter S. Thompson on politics