3 December 2020 Edward Koch If you don’t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don’t like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don’t like me, 90 cents.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver First of all, I think it’s odd that people who cover politics wouldn’t have any political views.
3 December 2020 Alastair Campbell By asking the question ‘Am I happy?,’ and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question – ‘Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?’
3 December 2020 Edward Kennedy Frankly, I don’t mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
3 December 2020 Eric Alterman Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system – like our physical existence – still breaks down along geographical lines.
3 December 2020 Nelson Mandela If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don’t ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.
3 December 2020 Calvin Coolidge We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
3 December 2020 Marilyn Manson 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.
3 December 2020 H. L. Mencken 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.
3 December 2020 Jack Kemp Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I’d already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
3 December 2020 Thomas Frank Acknowledging class was always difficult for ‘New Democrats’ – it was second-wave, it was divisive – but 2008 made retro politics cool again.
3 December 2020 Evander Holyfield No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz What matters most in politics is personality. It’s not issues it’s not image. It’s who you are and what you represent.
3 December 2020 Thomas Jefferson Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
3 December 2020 Zach Galifianakis Whether you are on the Right or the Left, everyone can agree that there are a lot of outside influences in American politics that are not good for the system. There’s just too much money.
3 December 2020 Donald Rumsfeld First rule of politics: you can’t win unless you’re on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn I don’t like to talk about things where you’re going to gt one side or the other unhappy. My music has no politics.
3 December 2020 Caroline Kennedy Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.
3 December 2020 Ray Bradbury 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.
3 December 2020 Grover Norquist Look, the center right coalition in American politics today is best understood as a coalition of groups and individuals that on the issue that brings them to politics what they want from the government is to be left alone.
3 December 2020 Konrad Adenauer The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.
