Politics begin where the masses are not where there are thousands but where there are millions that is where serious politics begin.

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

Finality is not the language of politics.

Compromise makes a good umbrella but a poor roof it is temporary expedient often wise in party politics almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

War has rules mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Office politics are bloody-minded but weak on content.

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.

Politics is a profession a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.

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.

Half a truth is better than no politics.

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.

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!

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

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?

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

In every country today there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics but there is politics.

I'm 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.

I must not write a word to you about politics because you are a woman.