I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president. Hillary Clinton
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
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
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. T. S. Eliot
What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! William Blake
When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. Ambrose Bierce
Politics is a profession a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war. Maria Montessori
Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. Marshall McLuhan
Office politics are bloody-minded, but weak on content. Mason Cooley
Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public. George McGovern
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. Benjamin Disraeli
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. Edmund Burke
Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke
There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. Vladimir Lenin
War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules. Ross Perot
Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. Orson Welles
Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship. James Russell Lowell