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Politics

I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction. – Hillary Clinton

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution. – Alexander Hamilton

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university. – Hubert H. Humphrey

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics. – Hubert H. Humphrey

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. – John Adams

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. – Hillary Clinton

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

Half a truth is better than no politics. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

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 and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement. – 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