The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out do not vote or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.

And yet there are still people in American politics who for some reason cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

The advice I've been giving to people all my life - that you may not be interested in the dialectic but the dialectic is interested in you you can't give up politics it won't give you up - was the advice I should have been taking myself.

I think that people are tired. They're tired of the same old kind of politics. People want a new tone to politics.

It's really very simple Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly I shall not seek and I will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as president.

The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power it is called a democracy.

Confronted with the choice the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.

So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights we'll be called a democracy.

The more I see of the representatives of the people the more I admire my dogs.

The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people to whom they belong.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Liberalism is I think resurgent. One reason is that more and more people are so painfully aware of the alternative.

One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.