You better take advantage of the good cigars. You dont get much else in that job. – Thomas P. ONeill
Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didnt happen. – Winston Churchill
Im 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
The more you observe politics, the more youve got to admit that each party is worse than the other. – Will Rogers
Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africas leading organization – and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. – Nelson Mandela
The trouble with Nixon is that hes a serious politics junkie. Hes totally hooked and like any other junkie, hes a bummer to have around, especially as President. – Hunter S. Thompson
Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because were hardwired not to always think clearly when were scared. And the countrys scared. – Barack Obama
I hate all politics. I dont like either political party. One should not belong to them – one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. – Ray Bradbury
I havent been very active in politics. – Clint Eastwood
Alliance – in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each others pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. – Ambrose Bierce
I dont think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people. – Paul Wellstone
Im 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
Only very intelligent people dont wish they were in politics, and Im dumb enough to want to be in there. – Orson Welles
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of peoples lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail. – Paul Wellstone
Politics is not bean bags. Its serious, tough stuff. – Colin Powell
You cant be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute whos for you and whos against you. – Samuel Johnson
Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesnt mean politics wont take an interest in you. – Pericles
If youre sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. – George W. Bush
I guess youd call me an independent, since Ive never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label. – Jackie Robinson
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my peoples struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism. – Angela Davis
