I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. Hillary Clinton on politics
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Thomas Carlyle on politics
Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty. Hubert H. Humphrey on politics
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence. Booker T. Washington on politics
In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. Alexander Hamilton on 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. Calvin Coolidge on politics
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government. Donald Trump on politics
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. Ambrose Bierce on politics
I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. Paul Wellstone on politics
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. Ambrose Bierce on politics
I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. Hubert H. Humphrey on politics
We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. Hubert H. Humphrey on politics
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. John Adams on politics
If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government. Barry Goldwater on politics
I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning. Adlai E. Stevenson on politics
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. Hillary Clinton on politics
In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. Hillary Clinton on politics
I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. Hillary Clinton on politics
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour. Benjamin Disraeli on politics
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 on politics