We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.

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

I don't think politics has anything to do with left right or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.

Alliance - in international politics the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

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.

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

I haven't been very active in politics.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

In politics... never retreat never retract... never admit a mistake.

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.

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

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

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

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.

I hate all politics. I don't 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.

Politics is applesauce.

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 we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie he's a bummer to have around especially as President.

There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

Before I went to jail I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

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.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.