Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. (Quote by - Paul Valery)

Of this stamp is the cant of, not men, but measures. (Quote by - Edmund Burke)

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. (Quote by - John F. Kennedy)

In politics a week is a very long time. (Quote by - Harold Wilson)

Damn your principles! Stick to your party! (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)

Finality is not the language of politics. (Quote by - Jean Baptiste Colbert)

Return to the fundamentals of politics - sell our story door to door. (Quote by - Richard J Daley)

Forgiving is all; forgetting is another thing. (Quote by - Bob Raev)

She displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition. (Quote by - Charles Kennedy)

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. (Quote by - Plato)

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. (Quote by - Charles de Gaulle)

I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be. (Quote by - M.M. Coady)

In politics, a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster. (Quote by - John P. Roche)

Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against. (Quote by - W.C. Fields)

Politics in America is the binding secular religion. (Quote by - Theodore H White)

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. (Quote by - Lindsey Nelson)

If we got one-tenth of what was promised to us in these acceptance speeches there wouldn't be any inducement to go to heaven. (Quote by - Will Rogers)

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)

I like the smell of a dunged field, and the tumult of a popular election. (Quote by - Augustus William)

I don't pick on politicians. They ain't done nothin'. (Quote by - Red Skelton)

Nobody is qualified to become a statesman who is entirely ignorant of the problems of wheat. (Quote by - Socrates)

You know very well that whether you are on page one or page thirty depends on whether they fear you. It is just as simple as that. (Quote by - Richard Nixon)

What obstructs the vision and is called smog in our big cities is called defining the issues in politics (Quote by - Anonymous)

Unlike Churchill, I have no plans to shape history. . . . Socrates gave advice (Quote by - and they poisoned him. (Quote by - George Bush)