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Politics

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. – Mahatma Gandhi

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. – Franklin D. Roosevelt

Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. – Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. – Ronald Reagan

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. – Ronald Reagan

A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. – Theodore Roosevelt

Politics is like football if you see daylight, go through the hole. – John F. Kennedy

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. – Napoleon Bonaparte

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. – Theodore Roosevelt

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics. – Thomas Sowell

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. – Will Rogers

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. – Will Rogers

Politics is applesauce. – Will Rogers

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. – Aldous Huxley

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors… I mean it. – Margaret Thatcher

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. – Mitt Romney

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. – Hubert H. Humphrey

In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. – Frank Zappa