What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one of the great supporters of the humanities because you have people who don't want to study the social sciences because it's not profitable and now Newt as the highest-paid historian in American history may be an encouragement to people to study history.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
In politics nothing is contemptible.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.
Politics it seems to me for years or all too long has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
In politics the middle way is none at all.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Politics have no relation to morals.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
In politics as in poetry it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.
If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.
Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
Politics is too partisan and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
Artists know that diligence counts as much if not more as inspiration in art as in politics patience counts as much as revolution.
The first requirement of politics is not intellect or stamina but patience. Politics is a very long run game and the tortoise will usually beat the hare.
It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience decency politeness and courtesy.
Human nature doesn't include all human beings. There are human beings who are indifferent to politics religion virtually anything.
I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.
The movies were custard compared to politics.
Politics gets me out of bed in the morning It's what really interests me. I'm a competitor but I also feel like I'm contributing whether it's working on health-care policy in the White House or out here in Chicago.
Let me tell you sisters seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.