In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
The most powerful force in American politics is not anger, it’s nostalgia.
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.
I wish I could make music about politics. I feel like it’s such an art and a talent that I admire tremendously, but when I step into the studio, I step out of the real world, and it’s therapeutic.
I don’t like politics. I am not aligned to any political party. I have friends in all political parties.
The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.
Architecture is politics.
Labour want to control all parts of the economy and society so that they can pursue the politics of envy. It would leave us all paying higher taxes and the economy in tatters.
I don’t want to express my opinion about actual politics, because if I do, I have to be responsible for my decision.
The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.
I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.
I don’t know anything about politics. Like, zero. Nothing.
But I don’t need to use politics as a way of making money.
We used to play marbles for keeps. If you lost, you lost. It is the same way with politics, but not everybody knows this.
My father was a politician. My grandfather was a politician too, maybe it’s an innate idea of representing people that we have in our family. I won’t go into politics. I think I can provide the voice for the voiceless through law.
Politics makes me sick.
The term ‘the American Left’ is as near to being meaningless or nonsensical as any term could really be in politics. It isn’t really a force in politics anymore. And it would do well to ask itself why that is.
There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.
But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel’s job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.
Whenever anything extraordinary is done in American municipal politics, whether for good or for evil, you can trace it almost invariably to one man. The people do not do it. Neither do the ‘gangs,’ ‘combines,’ or political parties.
As the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, I see on a daily basis the impact of politics and policy on my family, neighbors, friends, and residents.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it’s because I’m Smart… But that is a lie: The real reason is because I’m an incurable Gambling addict.
