As a black woman my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

From politics it was an easy step to silence.

I have no consistency except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.

I guess you'd call me an independent since I've 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.

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles come and join this campaign.

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

First I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious tough stuff.

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

By 2000 politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

Forget sex or politics or religion loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

When we are sick we want an uncommon doctor when we have a construction job to do we want an uncommon engineer and when we are at war we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives a politics that does not speak to and include people is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

To those who have exhausted politics nothing remains but abstract thought.

The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.

To rely upon conviction devotion and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

There is no gambling like politics.