Concerning this specific allegation or any allegation that we screen... local politics have no bearing on what we do, ... We do our job according to the facts, evidence and law.

Michael Healey

If it's politics as usual driving their choice, they will choose to fragment the levee board in another patronage politics smokescreen.

Jay Lapeyre

No one in the history of postwar German politics has risen from nowhere so fast and so far.

Gerd Langguth

Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

Laurens Van der Post

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

Paul Virilio

What I am doing is teaching people to be kind and benevolent, ... It is not politically motivated. I have never interfered with state laws and decrees, nor have I been involved in politics.

Li Hongzhi

His hobby was politics.

John Linder

Politics are all around us, you can't escape it. It's natural that the best movies are going to reflect what's going on in people's everyday lives.

Jeff Goldstein

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

Eighty percent of the people love me. And 20 percent of the people hate me ... but that's politics.

Doug Bennett

He is bringing the most divisive American politician in American politics to Spokane.

Dwight Pelz

This is a governor who ran as a progressive Republican, a socially moderate Republican, and this is just about politics. He's playing with people's lives for political gain. Words alone don't mean a lot.

Thom Lynch

Growth is still very strong. Once you focus beyond the politics in Poland, you're actually quite pleased with what you see.

Lucy Bethell

I actually see him as ushering in a new era of hopefully less tumultuous Cambodian politics.

Charles Ray

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Roy Hattersley

I don't get into politics.

Gal Fridman

We looked and we found them. The politics is important.

Stephen Strom

I don't think we've ever had a situation where so much of our politics depends on one person.

Tom Segev

We spoof religion and politics like crazy. It's more about having fun than anything else.

Jason Almgreen

It's probably best that we get it into a federal court, where we don't have to worry about politics tainting the outcome.

Tribal Chief Richard Velky

In the context of American politics, this is a pretty big deal. It symbolizes the influence and growth of a key voting group -- Hispanic voters -- in Democratic politics, but also in American politics.

Stuart Rothenberg

Relatively speaking, Japan looks the least uncertain market in regard to politics and the economy.

Hitoshi Yamamoto

The lieutenant governor is a man of his word. He will fulfill his commitment to deliver a memo on the subject, and it would be disappointing for anyone to play politics on this issue.

Leonardo Alcivar

Our purpose is to look at how the different Abrahamic religions define good and evil and how these perceptions affect politics, nationalism and conflict.

John Bennett

I believe we should debate things on the merits of policy and when people want to play politics that is fine.

Sen. Susan Bartlett

Early elections have been brought forward, forcing investors to take a closer look at Slovak politics. We may still see some further weakness.

Koon Chow

To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different.

Jerry Springer

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

Warren Beatty

Politics is the art of the possible. (originally, 'Die Politik ist die Lehre von Möglichen.').

Otto von Bismarck

As black people we may feel like we can't make it there. And now I feel like politics is maybe something I want to go into.

Brittany Smith

Advertisers are usually strictly non-partisan and believe in the big tent policy, if not in politics then in consumerism.

John Rash

My inspiration came from my desire to educate our children on the politics of the Iraq war in a light-hearted fashion.

Angela Martin

I am fighting to revive faith, not just in the Liberal party, but in politics itself. I'm a devoted Liberal, I've been one all my life. That's why I'm in the fight to renew the party I love. All my life has been inspired by Canada, and now it's my turn to try and inspire my fellow Canadians.

Michael Ignatieff

It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear...'

Rutherford B. Hayes

They might switch a cocktail party from politics to science.

Mike Hess

If the Conservative Right brings in more of the sort of certain Republican Right American politics to the politics of the Conservative Party they will be making a serious mistake.

Ken Clarke

In politics, you should never say never.

Meir Sheetrit

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

David Lloyd George

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination.

Mark Twain

I am not just jumping on the bandwagon for the sake of playing politics. I believe that all people should be moral when they work in government.

John Stroger

For nine months they've been spewing lies and character assassination on Senator Burns. It's all politics.

James Pendleton

I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

Maynard Jackson

PRESIDENCY, n. The greased pig in the field game of American politics.

Ambrose Bierce

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul / politics does the same thing for the body.

Joyce Cary

He was a very nice child, family-oriented but he got into this politics and this turned his life around.

Bernice Smith

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Martin L. Gross

He just gave of himself and was very active in borough politics. Anybody who came in touch with him. That was the effect Ben had on people. There was a huge procession for him. I have been to a lot of funerals, and this was the biggest I have ever seen (50-75 cars). Ben was a warrior. That was how he fought the disease.

Hal Honig

There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through.

John Gunther

Of course it's hurtful but I know it's not the way a lot of people on his side of politics behave.

Bob Carr

I believe this is a great opportunity and given my experience in politics, I feel I will be a strong voice for the people.

Paul Casey

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to choose the weapons.

Joseph Cannon

The man in whose footsteps I wish to follow is probably the most honorable man in Idaho politics.

Fred Wood

It further demonstrated how the House Republican Caucus has isolated themselves in doctrinaire, ideological partisan politics.

Brian J. Moran

In some ways, this is a critical election. A different paradigm of governing is emerging. We may be moving into this post-racial, post-ideological politics. I think it's much more a competency-based, performance-based politics.

Douglas Muzzio

Local politics is hijacking good sense.

Anthony Concil

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.

Pervez Musharraf

It saddens me greatly to see Mark's loss of faith in the power of politics to make change for the better. It saddens me even more to see Mark's loss of faith in the Labor Party.

Julia Gillard

What we want to convey for the next two weeks is, all politics and agenda aside, what's at stake here. A hospital will be built in Escondido or it will not.

Gustavo Friederichsen

He was interested in politics, reading, good food and art. He was very energetic. He never stopped.

Chris Dwyer

It's a mess. As the elections get closer, the politics will get nastier.

Michael Heath

We, the new left, know that we can't change politics to the extent that we will be part of a government. But we are not campaigning to govern, we are campaigning to change policies.

Oskar Lafontaine

He also made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government.

Dr. John Prescott

To use an unfortunate metaphor, Iraq is a roadside bomb in American politics.

Rich Bond

You have to send the signal that this is intolerable and counterproductive to Iranian international relations, If you give up on diplomacy, you get into gesture politics, which won't solve anything.

Rosemary Hollis

Representative Ney should be promoting legislation to clean up Congress and his own House, not legislation that brings more special-interest money into politics.

Joan Claybrook

The politics are what is kind of messed up about this league. A guy gets money, and it's obvious he's going to play. That is the way it is in this league. You just have to do the best you can to maintain your poise and composure.

Thomas Jones

This is the right thing to do in his mind. It has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with his belief structure.

Crystal Canney

What was best about this weekend was meeting other people who are crazy about Democratic politics. To be able to look to my left and to my right and strike up a conversation about Democratic politics and ideas is not something I can always do at school.

Matt Bailey

At the end of the Macmillan government, there was a change in the whole tone of politics.

Jonathan Aitken

We must remember that politics is more than a power game. The core of politics in my view is to serve our citizens, to serve our fellow human beings.

Kjell Magne Bondevik

Politics, for most Americans, is not an everyday-life issue. It is not something that affects you personally. That is why these demonstrations are so interesting, because what it shows is that immigration is not an academic issue; it is a genuine issue on the Hispanic immigrant side. You are talking about your friends, relatives, neighbors.

Harry Pachon

The timing of this clearly has to do with politics … but that doesn't mean the [L.A. plot] isn't true.

Lorenzo Vidino

Additional depositions are required of various past and present political figures to demonstrate the influence and perhaps improper influence exerted by Defendant Norcross on New Jersey politics to the detriment of Plaintiffs' careers.

Gregg Zeff

For their efforts to diminish the part played by nuclear arms in international politics and, in the longer run, to eliminate such arms.

Joseph Rotblat

It was supposed to be a nonpartisan race. It got to be partisan politics. You asked my opinion of it? I think it was done in bad taste.

Bill Morris

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.

Peggy Noonan

The emergence of the Latino population is creating a different politics in the 21st Century. It is really about a strategy. It is about how each party understands this critical part of America.

Simon Rosenberg

Our focus as a family is to make sure we are by his side day in and day out. I will not allow any politics to enter his hospital room or our thoughts as a family.

Ted Bailey

Closed politics cannot be a permanent feature of Chinese society, ... It is simply not sustainable.

Robert Zoellick

But raising tuition has a negative impact on enrollment. It's a delicate business issue, in addition to the politics and student welfare.

Provost Hobson Wildenthal

Politics, Society & Religion under Islam, Christianity & Judaism.

Charles Kimball

Every week I read about myself in a magazine, about something that I haven't done or some place that I've never been or don't even know. It's just gossip, rumors, egos, and politics.

Hilary Duff

We've constantly had leaders going down in the last 20 years for related issues. Those who are successful, there's a high chance they've pushed the boundaries of money in politics as far as they can go.

Julian Zelizer

The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Hilary Clinton

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

It's OK that we don't agree with one another. We're offering options about how to get to a better path in Iraq, and that's how politics works.

Simon Rosenberg

It wasn't done on politics. We got it because we had such a novel idea and also boats are pretty cool.

Stephen Von Vogt

PUSH, n. One of the two things mainly conducive to success, especially in politics. The other is Pull.

Ambrose Bierce

Forrester's company is getting business through Norcross's bank, so he's locked into the whole pay-to-play politics of this state.

Bruce Afran

The IFP does not play these political games of power and patronage, which are known to be part and parcel of the politics of the Western Cape.

Mangosuthu Buthelezi

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

What isn't on the list, and this is very important in terms of politics (and) community service, is poverty among kids, health care among kids, day care among kids, smoking, alcohol.

Robert Blendon

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those?

Gilbert Highet

I'm here to tell you right now that it won't be politics as usual.

Marie Galatas

I don't believe in gutter politics. I don't believe in gutter journalism.

Maria Shriver

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

It sounds good, which makes for good politics, but it doesn't make much difference.

Clayton Ruby

Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck

I do not want to do it (municipal politics) right now.

Randy White

Clearly, issues of ethics and corruption will be playing a significant role in our discussions of politics in the ensuing months. The longer this goes on, the more pressure on candidates from both parties to discuss how they will clean up the system.

Herb Asher

What I would like to see ... is that you have the appointments coming from different directions. But ... politics is in everything.

Bill Cobey

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

P.a. Caron De Beaumarchais

A legislator can have as many hearings as they want, but a man with no options is a man with no options. Politics fails when continued operations kick in, and states have milked outdated operations as much as they can.

Jim Krouse

Our themes are cultural. It doesn't have anything to do with the empire or the politics of Chavez's Bolivarian revolution.

Alexandre Louzada

Athlete-wise, I have a great group of kids who are having a lot of fun and are very respectful of the MVC. What is happening with this (possible dissolution of the MVC), it comes down to politics.

Amy Dupont

I'm angry that they are playing politics with this.

Gloria Mills

Timing is everything in politics, and the timing is with us right now.

Armando Navarro

There is a lot of opportunistic crime in Iraq, but eventually, it all comes down to politics. The video and their demands for female Iraqi detainees showed they think they have something.

Jackie Spinner

RECOUNT, n. In American politics, another throw of the dice, accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.

Ambrose Bierce

Oh, just good old city politics, played at its best.

Max Mathews

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics.

David Blunkett

Continue his negative politics.

Brian Nick

When you talk about a major economic development like this, you'll attract a lot of players. Politics will play a role, too.

Barry Milavetz

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.

Belva Lockwood

I don't know that anyone has identified what politics the attorney general has. I never thought about it, and I don't think politics had anything to do with her, ... She came in with great credentials.

Ruth Griffin

I declare I will never return to it. I have no intention of doing so and nobody should even dream about it. I will root this gang out of Indian politics. I will ideologically expose them. They will shiver in their legs. They are foreign elements, but I will not make any personal attacks.

Uma Bharti

We are not in party politics anyway, because if we do stand we will be standing as independents.

Paula Mccartney

My passion is philanthropy. His passion may be politics.

Kiran Patel

We enjoy playing music and being in each others' company. It's good fun. But the one thing we never discuss when we're together is the band itself or politics.

Sean Welch

Has been incapable of separating his personal politics from his professional responsibilities.

Tom Reynolds

It tackles, hopefully in an interesting way, things that are going on right now. We're talking about oil and oil politics, about the war on terror and about how families are adapting.

Stephen Gaghan

ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.

Ambrose Bierce

My generation, our generation, isn't so much concerned with where you're from. We don't have as much of a connection, a feel for the politics of our ancestors ... we are losing the idea of separate identities between the North and South.

Jeff Jackson

I am a part of the political process whether the multinational forces are present or not, ... Politics is serving the people, not chairs and positions.

Muqtada Al Sadr

I don't believe in the any-means-necessary brand of politics. That leads to cutting corners to win, which leads to ethical lapses.

Tom Campbell

I've warned them, no partisan politics.

Adam Campbell

I did not come into politics to make poor people poorer.

John Hutton

At the end of the day, it is all politics. Everything else is just pretext.

Kayode Fayemi

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Ian Mcewan

Let me tell you, politics is much more difficult than war, ... In politics, there are so many more fronts.

Massoud Barzani

For four years we've had a Democratic governor who sometimes pays lip service to Republican ideals. In a Republican state, that's good politics.

Ray Hunkins

It's unfortunate that when the nation is looking for leadership and solutions, we're seeing the politics of division from Democrats.

Danny Diaz

Most teenagers are far more interested in politics than we give them credit for. They're informed, they watch the news, and they're concerned about what happens.

Dan Taggart

I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan

Unfortunately, a lot of coaches have grasped the concept of self promotion and Tom never cared about self promotion. It is a mystery with Tom Moore. But the guy has never played politics. . . . Now he's at the stage where it's an age issue.

Chris Mortensen

They violated one of the basic principals of the Olympic Games. That politics play no part whatsoever in them.

Avery Brundage

They're learning what it means to be president of the United States because their plans and their campaigns just got wiped off the front pages. And neither one of them better get caught playing politics with these issues.

Jim Duffy

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

Naomi Klein

You know, in college we talked very little about politics, ... He wasn't very political, and I was overtly political. It was more the typical college stuff.

Virg Bernero

Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.

Jimmy Durante

I think that is very harmful to the nature of our democratic politics because, not unlike the market, competition politically is a healthy sign of a well-functioning democracy.

David Olson

The benefits to the people of the state of Florida of having a fair, relatively politics-free reapportionment would outweigh the costs.

Mark Herron

Mike is a level playing field. He does not do politics. You're treated the same way in everything. You know you're getting a square deal.

John Bourlan

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else.

Shirley Chisholm

We want to help out the community and get young people to get interested in politics.

Tim Nichols

This is not about justice, this is not about the law. This is about politics. There is a lot at stake here for us.

Michael Lombardi

He's a wealthy man. He doesn't need politics. He doesn't need people to wine and dine him, ... I'm not ashamed to say it's never affected my relationship with him.

Frank Rizzo

For me Margaret Thatcher has always been one of the world's best-dressed people. Her politics were appalling, but her look gave her incredible presence.

Vivienne Westwood

I'm more interested in the human condition than in governments and the politics they do.

Rafi Pitts

Is George Ryan perfect? No. He's grown up in the rough-and-tumble world of politics in Illinois, and he's not perfect.

Dan K. Webb

We need to find a balance and it needs to be managed but you cannot totally remove politics from student life.

Pieter Mulder

I have no understanding of motivations or politics.

Anglican Bishop Robert Duncan

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight.

Joseph Chamberlain

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Eugene J. Mccarthy

I never let politics get personal. You can have the most intense, heated debate on issues, and so long as you keep it on issues, you can go out and have coffee afterwards and you're good friends.

Phil Crane

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows--marriage does.

Groucho Marx

There's no politics. It's very straight-forward. This is the kind of culture we want to have - no (expletive), no politics - just working together to improve this company as fast as we can.

Dieter Zetsche

There is nothing new about turning science into politics. This has been going on for some time in this administration.

Dr. Joel Gallant

I don't think it's overstating the fact that, on that date, politics and television changed forever. After that debate, it was not just what you said in a campaign that was important, but how you looked saying it.

Bruce Dumont

Sometimes we talk about old times or about the difference between today and yesterday. We talk about everything but politics; I banned that.

Madeline Kaloides

He was just going out and touching every third rail in California politics. That's why I got interested in backing him.

John Gunn

We are at a point where the major issues are moot. Those formerly unhappy now, from what we understand in conversations, support our current efforts. The politics is such where we feel it's an important conversation with the full board.

Jolanda Schreurs

You become a kind of law-and-order person. He's been outside of party politics for long enough, so he can create a nice image for himself as being someone who's efficient and effective.

Neal Milner

Duncan is not only hurting himself in Baltimore, where people are just getting to know him, but also in Montgomery County, where people don't like negative politics, ... I think it's very risky.

Lanny Davis

Yesterday, it was Augie's day and we didn't want to intrude upon his day with politics. We have to move on and keep his spirit alive by helping to protect his buddies who are still out there.

Rosemary Palmer

This is the dirtiest, scariest thing I've ever seen. When it comes to politics in this city, people don't play fair.

Donna Jones

I did lots of things before I came into politics which I shouldn't have done. We all did.

Andrew Marr

The way politics worked in Pennsylvania at the time he decided to run for public office, he had no choice, ... Even if he wanted to run as a Democrat, there was just no way he could have got the nomination.

George Freeman

The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.

Harold Rosenberg

We maintain that it doesn't belong on the site, ... It doesn't belong on sacred ground. Politics do not belong on this sacred place.

Anthony Gardner

We made a pact that, No. 1: no politics.

Don Logan

You should never ask actors about politics.

Liev Schreiber

I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.

Jeffrey Archer

It's about the loss of American loved ones, not about politics or about celebrities, ... It's interesting actually, how the number of lives lost keeps changing with each Ground Zero production.

John Hood

I know politics, I know Quebec, I know the Italian community. . . and I'm giving them a hand.

Alfonso Gagliano

Neil is great at finding the excitement in the political. He's fascinated by urban politics and history.

Stefan Brun

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.

Ann Miller

A lot of investors are not going to look at anything else apart from politics at the moment for as long as there is nobody who has any credibility running the country. If we don't have the leadership in place, things like government spending cannot help the economy.

Sanyalaksna Manibhandu

That's not the way you distinguish someone's politics. It forces us to distance ourselves from him.

Dick Harpootlian

But this is not about politics. This is about making sure people in their last days get the care they need.

Lori Parham

It's one of those areas of politics where people have become accustomed to something that was once radical. It's just normative at this point.

Julian Zelizer

She had a lot of concern about how explicit I was going to be about her politics.

Sara Halprin

I love politics. This just made me want to go into politics even more.

Steve John

Though the opposition parties, which have no ideology or morality in politics, have been crying themselves hoarse about failure of a grand alliance, they could enter into an alliance secretly.

Jyoti Basu

People talk about how money is the mother's milk of politics. Well, it's the devil's brew. And what we've got to do, we've got to turn off the tap.

Ronnie Earle

Raising money can be the toughest thing for a candidate to have to do, and it can be a factor that leads some people to decide not to get involved in politics.

Matt Smyth

If any other country in Latin America were acquiring these weapons, the U.S. wouldn't say boo. Because it's Venezuela, it has got caught up in politics.

Tom Baranauskas

So many of these people who come here aren't political. They don't know a lot about the law and how politics work in their own country, so it's even harder for them to know it here.

Roberto Castillo Cano

Peron had a wise saying. In politics, you can recover from anything except looking like a fool.

Alma Guillermoprieto

(Wednesday) we will determine whether or not Massachusetts stands for the dreams of an education or if Massachusetts is going to lose in the face of politics of fear and hatred.

Ali Noorani

We do not feel changes need to be made in the PSC. Furthermore, we believe the position of attorney general should be elected in a non-partisan manner, just like Kentucky's judges, so that partisan politics do not overwhelm decision-making in thinly veiled attempts to advance careers.

Jodi Whitaker

This is a love letter to the guys in the field. To the grunt, the political context is irrelevant. They're not worried about politics. They've simply got a job to do. And this movie is concerned with how they do that job.

William Broyles Jr

I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

My inspiration for Baker Tonys Pizza came from my desire to educate our children on the politics of the Iraq war in a light-hearted fashion.

Angela Martin

You can sell buttons that make fun of a candidate and still do business with that candidate's campaign. That's politics.

Sharon Young

When I ask my Liberal friends why they loathe President Bush so deeply (not his policies or his politics, but the man himself), I am often told by them that Conservatives 'started it' by loathing Bill Clinton.

Pat Sajak

The collection is about the many-faceted musical forms of Jewish life that were written for religion, theatre or politics.

Neil Levin

They're all competing. That's what I love about this situation that's a little bit different than what we've had. There's no politics. The best players are going to play.

Danny Ainge

Politics, just like the tropical forest, feeds itself from its own waste.

Paul Carvel