3 December 2020 Lewis Black You realize that for all the shenanigans that go on in the big circus of politics, everybody wakes up and goes to work.
3 December 2020 Corazon Aquino I know my limitations, and I don’t like politics. I was only involved because of my husband.
3 December 2020 Paul Nurse I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.
3 December 2020 Molly Ivins Good thing we’ve still got politics in Texas – finest form of free entertainment ever invented.
3 December 2020 Robert Orben Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right?
3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
3 December 2020 Kid Rock My shows aren’t about trying to save some place, because I don’t feel that’s the right venue for it. That’s my politics right there: Don’t bring politics to my shows.
3 December 2020 John Stuart Mill Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
3 December 2020 Clare Boothe Luce In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.
3 December 2020 Iain Banks In so much of politics you’re not allowed to disagree with what’s been agreed.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver I was looking for something like baseball, where there’s a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That’s when I discovered politics.
3 December 2020 Theresa May Like Indiana Jones, I don’t like snakes – though that might lead some to ask why I’m in politics.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
3 December 2020 Terry McAuliffe I’ve done business with people I’ve met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
3 December 2020 Eva Green I’m not really involved with politics… I’m living in my cocoon with my classical music around.
3 December 2020 Mahatma Gandhi It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.
3 December 2020 H. Rap Brown Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed and war is an extension of those politics.
3 December 2020 Hyman Rickover If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.
3 December 2020 Mark Twain Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress but I repeat myself.
3 December 2020 John Kenneth Galbraith The modern conservative is engaged in one of man’s oldest exercises in moral philosophy that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
3 December 2020 Al Franken The next thing I am doing is moving back home to Minnesota and getting involved in politics. I’m looking at a run for Senate in 2008, but in the meantime I am focused on knitting together the progressive network in the upper Midwest.
3 December 2020 Jerry Only Music shouldn’t be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.
3 December 2020 Frank Luntz The challenge in working in politics, particularly if you’re working for a political party, is that everyone’s a messenger.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson 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.
