Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. – Demetri Martin
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. – Robert Byrne
A wise nation should cultivate a political spirit that allows opponents to cooperate without fearing an automatic execution from their core supporters. Who knew that the real rogues in American politics would be the ones who dare to get along? – Jon Meacham
And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there. – Marco Rubio
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at. – Christian Nestell Bovee
Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics. – Barbara Bush
Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. – Newt Gingrich
Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. – Christopher Lasch
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia. – Otto von Bismarck
A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics. – Peter Jennings
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
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
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
Politics disgusts me. – Brigitte Bardot
I never thought of politics as a profession. – Georgios A. Papandreou
I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest. – Aneurin Bevan
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
