The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both. John Cornyn
I think that what went wrong with religion is the same thing that went wrong with politics. Is that it became too money based and too controlling. It's just a weakness that we human beings have for control - we want one thing and then we want more and then we want more. Dave Davies
You do the policy, I'll do the politics. Dan Quayle
Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. Saul Alinsky
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. Khaleda Zia
A dose of humility goes a long way in life and in politics. Ron Fournier
War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. Alfred Adler
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. Adlai E. Stevenson
We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is. Adlai E. Stevenson
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. Aneurin Bevan
I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.' David Byrne
Remember the first time you went to a show and saw your favorite band. You wore their shirt, and sang every word. You didn't know anything about scene politics, haircuts, or what was cool. All you knew was that this music made you feel different from anyone you shared a locker with. Someone finally understood you. This is what music is about. Gerard Way
I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist. Henry Adams
Is there in all the history of human folly a greater fool than a clergymen in politics? Pat Robertson
You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. Michael Bloomberg
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories. Christopher Lasch
Everybody in America is soft, and hates conflict. The cure for this, both in politics and social life, is the same - hardihood. Give them raw truth. John Jay Chapman