3 December 2020 Pericles Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.
3 December 2020 James Russell Lowell Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.
3 December 2020 David Miliband You have to believe that it’s through politics that societies can lead social and economic and political change.
3 December 2020 Robert Teeter Look at the declining television coverage. Look at the declining voting rate. Economics and economic news is what moves the country now, not politics.
3 December 2020 Pervez Musharraf I am not at all a politician. I don’t think I’m cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
3 December 2020 J. C. Watts Good policy makes good politics and what I’ve done has been good politics.
3 December 2020 Marco Rubio I don’t really like labels in politics, but I will gladly accept the label of conservatism.
3 December 2020 Joseph Sobran Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
3 December 2020 Patricia Hewitt We’re seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
3 December 2020 Alexis de Tocqueville In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
3 December 2020 Gilbert K. Chesterton Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.
3 December 2020 Andrew Cuomo Once you start saying, ‘Let’s talk political, my own politics, my own aspirations,’ it can become not just distracting in that it takes time, but it can become confusing and frustrating, and is this now a political agenda or a governmental agenda.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Netanyahu I will say that I think Israel enjoys strong bipartisan support in the United States. It’s really above and beyond American politics.
3 December 2020 Adlai E. Stevenson The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
3 December 2020 Bjork I’m not going to talk like I know about politics, because I’m a total amateur, but maybe I can be a spokesperson for people who aren’t normally interested in politics.
3 December 2020 Peggy Noonan Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
3 December 2020 Gore Vidal Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
3 December 2020 Frank Lautenberg One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.
3 December 2020 Imran Khan There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.
3 December 2020 Henry A. Kissinger University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
3 December 2020 Joseph Stiglitz Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.
3 December 2020 Richard Lamm Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you’ve got to be wise enough to know when to leave.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Lenin To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
3 December 2020 Charles Kennedy Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally, there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
