It's not an issue of politics, it's not an issue of ownership, it's an issue of religion.

Lilikala Kameeleihiwa

No politics, no judges' panels. They are very simply a true celebration of consumer choice.

Jerome Kramer

It's so needed to bring God into politics.

Brian Garry

We're all just really shocked. In my 25 years in politics I've never seen anything like this.

Rick Dent

It's not about politics, it's about soccer.

Cary Kaplan

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Maria Montessori

Philosophically, it's the only way I can think of to let all those people who've checked out [of politics] to check back in. I look at Massachusetts, and it seems to be at a crossroads. There should be an urgency about that.

Deval Patrick

I try to mix it up. Who wants to see a comic who just goes on with one subject, such as politics, for an hour? I go in a number of different directions. When I perform, there is no subject that is taboo.

Steve Hofstetter

It's no longer the third rail of American politics.

David Elliot

He was kind, considerate and a very humble person, but he was a lion in politics.

Tommy Moore

They are just making politics. It is nothing but point-scoring.

Amanullah Khan

It is disappointing to see Granite State Democrats leveling these outrageous allegations. Unfortunately this is just politics as usual for the Democrats.

Aaron Mclear

He worked his whole life to be governor - it was his dream in politics and it turned out to be a nightmare.

Paul Green

The American courts ruled that money is speech and speech can't be limited in politics because of freedom of expression. We don't have that same sort of aggressive notion of freedom of speech.

Lisa Young

That's when the seed was planted. I didn't know a lot about the politics of putting a woman on the air. I just saw one.

Phyllis George

Is he a leading citizen? Yes, he is. Does he have a lot of friends because of that? Yes, he does. (But) I'm not aware that he's become a great force in politics.

Bob Honts

God's Politics: Why the Right Gets It Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It .

Jim Wallis

A lot of folks who were interested in doing initiatives didn't want to be on the same ballot with the governor's because they didn't want to get caught up in the politics of that.

Dave Gilliard

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

Ralph Nader

Politics is just show business for ugly people.

Jay Leno

Politics: 'The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.'

Ambrose Bierce

He cannot be trusted. He should not be in a position of authority. He should stand down. He should not be allowed in politics again and he certainly should not profit from this.

James Mcpherson

[State Rep. Pete Rios calls him] an impressive young man. ... I want to encourage young people to get involved in politics. He has a lot of energy. He's intelligent.

Michael Johnson

It's been consumed by politics, controlled by politics and seems only to get more and more just sunk into the quicksand of politics.

Paul Goldberger

I don't think that one song would dissuade potential donors from coming. People enjoy Barbra Streisand's music whether they enjoy her politics or not.

Brian Kennedy

I don't think anyone has done as much as Peter has to change the tone and direction of politics in Illinois.

Steve Rauschenberger

Homosexuality in politics isn't going to fly, ... That's not what America needs at this time.

Louis Sheldon

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

Naomi Wolf

Yeah, I don't know that much about what goes on inside. We find out very little about the politics. The just probably deal with much smaller issues.

Jordan Wilson

I can't comment on that. The fact that it's politics is ridiculous.

Diane Mccutcheon

The fact that you do this kind of race gets you tremendous cachet because it's very hard to do. You can expect Anthony Weiner to loom large in city politics for some time to come.

Hank Sheinkopf

Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.

P. J. O'Rourke

Rockefeller College is one of the premier places in the country to study politics, governance, policy, and public administration.

Frank Thompson

He was the candidate who could offer economic deliverance and do away with a lot of corruption and economic stagnation that had marked Iranian politics and economics for the last eight years.

Karim Sadjadpour

It almost makes the class more interesting to debate about politics. But you have to be careful what you say.

Marilyn Harris

He's nicely situated. He weathered the initial scorn [ over his entry into Canadian politics] with some style. He's an attractive figure and there is a paucity of really interesting political figures.

John Fraser

The Democratic Party has sunk to a new low with a false, personal attack against his family. It's gutter politics, and it has no place in Montana.

Jason Klindt

It's here for one reason, and that's politics.

Kevin Hennessy

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

George MacDonald

It's a policy job, ... I'm not sure we have a policy problem. We have a discipline problem and it's because of politics in the police department.

William Stephens

Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics.

Mark Dayton

By associating with General Shelton on this campaign, you seem to have given in to the negative politics that you say you have risen above.

Matt Bennett

In politics, if you win by an insufficient score, you may be a loser.

Hugh Winebrenner

My passion is food not politics. I just listen to people and then I go and get their iced tea.

David Roberson

It's not easy to move a $25 million hotel development from Point A to Point B without a lot of questions coming up. Sometimes we don't get the questions addressed right up to the vote. That's just politics.

David Storrie

For starters, if you vote Green it moves the agenda of politics.

George Read

Talk politics, talk about study and talk positively.

Jiang Zemin

It fits into his general framework of, 'I care less about the politics than in policy that makes sense'. I think that that's the image I have of him. That's the image he'd like voters to have of him.

Douglas Rivlin

My Republican friends are laughing at us because of the indecision we're going through, ... Inside Politics.

Thomas Menino

I have nothing but great admiration for this gentleman . . . who's been able to withstand a lot of the foils and stumbling blocks in politics as we know them.

Oscar Peterson

I was interested in politics, thought I had good speaking abilities. I talked with Mr. Oliver about it and he suggested I go ahead.

Henry Adams

It contributes to it. What do you think politics is, if not arguing about principles?

John Humphrys

I don't do any politics, I'm not trying to push any agenda, and I don't talk about pop culture. It's really about silliness. If I can make people laugh every day, that's good for me.

Tony Carrillo

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

Mark Poster

It is time we proceed even further with this reformist endeavor ... we have to continue our combat against the underworld and money politics.

Lien Chan

Let me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.

Ann Richards

There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

Paul Wellstone

[Still, such a idea is political dynamite.] The politics are impossible, ... Politicians do this at their peril.

Leonard Burman

MUGWUMP, n. In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.

Ambrose Bierce

A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.

Paul Wellstone

There were a lot of things that were fundamentals of politics here, but because there had not been free elections there no one there knew anything about them.

Larry Gibson

If it's decided by politics, it's Beijing, ... If you ask the wives where they want to go, it's Paris. If you ask the athletes, it's Toronto.

Mel Lastman

Tom is the kind of guy that people want to go after because he plays politics to the hilt, and politics is a game in which every dog has his day. Clearly, Tom is in the eye of the hurricane, and a lot of people would love to see him out of Washington. But they can't run him out just because they don't like him. They're going to have to find a good reason.

Bill Frenzel

By stooping to the politics of personal destruction, these groups have proven once again that they offer no solutions, and no ideas.

Bob Mcadam

The key is whether the market is able to shift its eyes from uncertainty in the politics and the banking system.

Hiroichi Nishi

He's an important mentor to young Hispanics in politics. Plus, there isn't anyone in this country who has a better understanding of urban issues than Henry Cisneros.

Larry Hufford

It's worth bearing in mind that Hamlet makes poor Danish history and that Lawrence of Arabia grossly oversimplifies the politics and cultures of the Middle East. I don't mean to say that drama should never concern itself with factual accuracy, only that a work of art must be judged by a higher standard.

Arthur Golden

I was helping to resolve the problems of everyday Minnesotans. I feel it (politics) is something I could do. Maybe he (Dayton) can help me on my campaign when I run for the Senate in Minnesota.

Dominique Byrd

[In a May 1996 interview with] Inside Politics, ... The policy worked, and now we're getting the Iranians and their influence out of Bosnia, and I think it's a good story.

Anthony Lake

A lot of history is just dirty politics cleaned up for the consumption of children and other innocents.

Richard Reeves

We're allowed to have had a private life before politics in which we make mistakes and do things we should not.

David Dimbleby

We provide insurance to over 1 million Americans. Clearly this bill is about politics -- bad politics.

Nate Hurst

The scenario was bad with Nasdaq, local politics and Argentina...but the market held up well.

Francisco Andrade

If there was a playoff, (polls) wouldn't make a bit of difference. But there's built-in politics. Somebody has to sift through that and say, 'There's a good team.' We have the people to do that.

Andy Curtin

Nothing is as easy as playing the politics of the tribe as what you only need is to abuse someone and the others will see you to be defending your own tribe and you will go up the political ladder very fast.

Raphael Tuju

I have the most reliable friend you can have in American politics, and that is ready money.

Phil Gramm

Our goal is to reach out to every Gator on this campus. This campaign is about marking the end of politics as usual.

Jared Hernandez

Many who think they are workers in politics are really merely tools.

Lord Salisbury

She has said that she is for the new politics and the new technology, and I am for the old. In fact, exactly the opposite is true.

Slade Gorton

I don't look at this as a setback. There are often hiccups in coalition politics so we sit down and talk to resolve them.

Ambika Soni

Domestic Western politics are much more transparent than before.

Thomas Hegghammer

Today in California, love conquered fear, principle conquered politics and equality conquered injustice.

Geoffrey Kors

It had to do with ability and talent. It had nothing to do with politics.

G. Gordon Liddy

There's a great deal of data to show that youth involvement in politics is the greatest it's been since the 1960s.

Daniel Shea

All business leaders here are frustrated by the fact that (this) ... is the only region left at the end of the century where economics are kept hostage by politics.

Klaus Schwab

In matters of politics and government, the church maintains a policy of remaining neutral institutionally. Latter-day Saints are taught to support their local and national governments, but the church does not endorse candidates, parties or platforms.

Dale Bills

Russia is the ultimate culprit. It claims that this has nothing to do with politics, but there's just far too much politics at play here.

Valery Nesterov

I have no misconceptions as to how politics works; I don't take it personally.

Tucker Anderson

It's hard to talk about them (politics and religion) in a way that doesn't anger people, and I often make people angry, ... I'm trying to do it as inoffensively as possible, and it shouldn't be offensive. It should be what we talk about.

Glen Phillips

They politics like ours profess, / The greater prey upon the less.

Matthew Green

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.

William Howard Taft

Germany had a balancing function not only in European politics but in the European Union, between Britain and France, between Western Europe and Eastern Europe, and between Europe and the United States.

Katinka Barysch

I tell you, a lot of politics have everything to do with it. It's all politics, There ain't no real love for us Black people, especially in the ghetto.

Raynold Fenelon

Koizumi was marvelous at giving flavor to politics, ... Eccentrics like Koizumi have been underplayed in the past. But the time has come for Japanese eccentrics to come to center stage.

Takashi Inoguchi

Politics attracts the glib, the fast talker and the con artist. It's a natural place for those who think fast on their feet.

George Harleigh

Politics in Palm Beach has gotten stale. The council needs a change in demographics. There's a lot of families and younger people in town. Currently none of them are represented.

Susan Markin

He's not a go-along, get-along type of person. Especially at this stage in his career, he would not be persuaded by (politics) if he genuinely believes they have a mandate to close bases.

Kirk Jowers

Goldwater liked to sneak out of Phoenix and go up there and have a few beers with the crowd. He'd talk politics and get yelled at. He loved it.

Mike Seitts

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

David Brooks

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

Richard Lamm

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Jim Hightower

It's going to be some of the hardest, bare-knuckled politics that has taken place ever in the Arab world. They play hardball.

Genjohn Abizaid

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

Sandy Koufax

My sense is that 'business as usual' in Chicago politics is ripe for investigation.

Bernard Harcourt

I got into politics because it looked interesting and I grew to really care about our state.

Brad Young

This case is about politics, political opinion and the role of the heir to the throne in relation to these issues.

Mark Warby

They want to enter mainstream politics. They are saying there has been enough bloodshed.

Minendra Rijal

I was going to get out of politics, and then they made me chairman of the Republican Party. It's been 11 years now.

Herman Puryea

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto von Bismarck

I think this generation is just more interested in politics than previous ones.

Mike Drum

This went from being a standard funeral to being an all-star game of American politics.

Jonathan Alter

It's an event which entered political historical consciousness. If you think back over 20th century Australian history, there are probably only two dozen events which every Australian knows about and talks about, no matter what football code they follow or what side of politics they are on.

Guy Hansen

It removes politics from the police department.

Steve Kolenda

I thought it would be a good idea to go into Politics, maybe I am a little old... but you know... I'd love to be Chancellor of the Exchequer - That way I'll be united with my money!

Ken Dodd

They're playing politics to look like global firms. It remains to be seen how many Americans they are going to hire. My guess is it won't be a lot.

Ron Hira

There's obvious tongue-in-cheek there. It's all about politics. That doesn't mean it's not fueled by personal interest as well as principle. But to not read politics into it is to say you're not paying attention.

Jaime Regalado

I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you.

Ann Richards

He is a very nice guy, easy to talk to. For me, I don't know anything about politics and we usually talk about family.

Kathleen Sullivan

It talks a lot about the loss of rights, things we're starting to see in day-to-day politics.

John Byrom

If anybody honestly and truly believes that because some corporation throws a member a party that the member is in their pocket, they go to the Oliver Stone school of politics.

Rich Bond

They knew people so well. They communicated so well. They understood politics, especially patronage politics.

Jack Hanna

I really miss working with all the creative people there, but I just realized after six years of being there I needed to move on and explore my own interests. There wasn't anything except the normal office politics, and every corporation has that.

Tara Bench

If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion, or force citizens to confess by word or act.

Robert H. Jackson

Politics mainly represents noise, and if anything, the market selling off on political tension is indicative of a buying opportunity.

Lance Depew

There are two types of kids at our shows: the ones who care about politics and come to our shows to forget about it, and the kids who don't care about politics at all.

Jeph Howard

My uncle often played the devil's advocate just to get a rise out of somebody, but was extremely giving, passionate about everything — what he was reading, religion, what he was doing, politics.

Mary Weaver

There's been no dirty politics so far.

Matt Lyons

Of course I was disappointed. My expectation was to play a more senior role, but this is politics. You don't always get what you want.

Diane Ablonczy

Threats of black-listing have no place in Democratic politics. It's a disgusting tactic and it's been done out of pure desperation.

Colin Strother

BJP should shun personality-oriented politics and return to value based politics.

Uma Bharti

I'm a passionate person, and I'm passionate about politics. I'm going to write about it, and I'm not going to pull any punches.

Wil Wheaton

This race is simply too close to call, ... Let me say I have been in politics a very long time, but I don't think there has ever been a night like this one.

Bill Daley

No matter your politics, ... Love Bush or hate him. You have to support the men and women. ... I think Mrs. Sheehan is disrespecting the memory of her child. It's disrespectful. Her son made the choice (to be in the military).

Daniel Healy

I'm new to politics, but my main passion is schools, so I fell into politics as a result. This is a defining moment in Plymouth. We need to do something.

Anne Difrancesco

It's partisan politics, people trying to discredit somebody else so then they can make themselves look better.

Donald Evans

We can be as tough on crime as we're willing to pay for. That's part of the politics of the matter.

Greg Weaver

In politics time is measured in increments of two, four and six years.

Lee R. Raymond

The issue is, once you've involved politics in the drug approval process, there's no way to put that genie back in the bottle.

Susan Wood

The changes are happening in politics, too. We're very much out of the '50s. We like having our own money and we like not having to work for jerks.

Jan Scott

It's irrelevant what somebody's politics are. It just matters whether they would be a good central banker.

Frederic Mishkin

The issue here is not political. Hence, politics should take the back seat here.

Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

There are so many people who are working so hard to have so little these days. It's disturbing, because this is the most politics I've ever talked about out of 500 interviews.

Danny Shafer

They are playing the politics of revenge. The Board of Finance is trying to get even with us.

John Criscuolo

Pat Robertson is an embarrassment to the church and a danger to American politics, ... It's time for Christian leaders of all stripes to call on Robertson not just to apologize but to retire.

Jim Wallis

Despite the publisher's promises that the magazine's contents would be on lifestyle, conventional issues, culture and politics, and there would be no nude pictures, we just don't believe him.

Ahmad Rofiq

Our concern is about the traveler, not the politics. What really matters is what the traveler needs to know.

Colin Jensen

The mob hits, the politics, the disasters, the biggest stories of our lives. City News was there.

Phil Rogers

If mass communications blend together harmoniously, and often unnoticeably, art, politics, religion, and philosophy with commercials, they bring these realms of culture to their common denominator -- the commodity form.

Herbert Marcuse

Politically, Erie County is like the Peoria (Ill.) of state politics. People who carry Erie County carry the state.

Leonard Lenihan

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.

Theodore H. White

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John Lecarre

This was obviously a scam devised to get Indians to part with funds. Native Americans are new to dealing with politics and we are trying to build relationships so we can better our communities and our quality of life for our people. On this one issue of gaming we need a legislative fix.

Cheryl Downing

I think its clear that politics played a part, ... But Corodemus and Kean failed the 11th District. They weren't making this much noise when the grant process was going on. It's only after they didn't get anything that they started.

Jim Reilly

We have all the rights in the constitution but in absence of fair politics, this all will be nothing but paper.

Dr Kamal Hossain

It's less about business deals than about politics.

Jonathan Harris

Part of me wishes some of the more obsessive fans would spend a fraction of the time (they spend studying the band) on politics.

Dave Matthews

Politics is a choice of enemas. You're gonna get it up the ass, no matter what you do.

George V. Higgins

I saw him alive and I saw him in a different situation ... I didn't like his politics, but I liked him as a person. They were a beautiful family, ... There are not many of us who were there ... an eyewitness to history.

Phil Williams

Our differences are politics. Our agreements are principles.

William Mckinley

Politics and locusts always mix. In the mix there is never any logic though. Politics makes locust control difficult.

David Hunter

'All politics is local' -- even in national Presidential elections. Just like what happened in 2000, we expect almost all of the national campaign spending to be done locally.

Michael Russell

They follow politics. They want to hear more than just seeing a name.

Jass Stewart

The idea that religion and politics don't mix was invented by the Devil to keep Christians from running their own country.

Jerry Falwell

One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs.

Tonya Harding

That's a very strong argument for reducing holdings out of Poland and politics might be the trigger.

Lars Christensen

What the primary voters are going to see is that Congressman DeLay has 30 years of leadership in local politics, and the last 10 years nationally. (His opponents) have 30 years of catching up to do over the next six weeks.

Shannon Flaherty

He was brought up in politics. He ran for state's attorney twice and lost both times.

Gary Bell

It's really a story that makes as much fun of the body politic as any particular politicians. It makes fun of how we got to this place where there's a lot of politics in entertainment and a lot of entertainment in politics.

Willem Dafoe

DELEGATION, n. In American politics, an article of merchandise that comes in sets.

Ambrose Bierce

Macroeconomic policy can never be devoid of politics: it involves fundamental trade-offs and affects different groups differently.

Joseph Stiglitz

To have a former governor on trial is a big deal even for Illinois. It just reinforces what is a very cynical attitude among Illinois citizens about politics and politicians. Our expectations and our standards are pretty low. Our politicians try very hard to live up to those low standards.

Kent Redfield

Because the politics of smear and this public and media and political obsession with sex has got some parallels in my circumstances.

Mark Latham

That's the moment I got interested in politics. I remember going to a Penguins game with Artie. He described all the conversations that were going on and he didn't know what he wanted to do at that point, but said he probably wasn't going to go ahead with it. That's when I first started thinking about government and politics ... when I got intrigued by all of the gamesmanship that goes on.

Tom Rooney

We meet socially to talk about Australian (or New Zealand) politics, sports.

Michael Hogan

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

Oswald Mosley

Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

There's a lot of politics-playing going on with this, and I don't want to be a part of that. But I'm extremely concerned about this situation and want to cut through the politics to get at the facts.

Sen. Nancy Argenziano

The formula that we used does not take into account any political factors. That has no value to us. Politics, district boundaries, who has a road tax and who does not - that was not part of the formula.

William Jarrell

It is a national trend, which is to engage in politics of personal destruction. It takes preference over issues.

Larry Hufford

As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?

Jonathan Coe

Hundreds of thousands of Ohioans have signed petitions, hoping for a chance to vote for reform and clean up politics in Ohio.

Chris Redfern

People really need to know [who their mayoral candidates are] before they go to the polls. Unless politicians can articulate local concerns during this election, we may well see a further decline in interest in local politics.

Prof Nico Steytler

The politics of the left and centre of this country are frozen in an out-of-date mould which is bad for the political and economic health of Britain and increasingly inhibiting for those who live within the mould. Can it be broken?

Roy Jenkins

Don't play politics with this issue. You've got to show the moxie, the backbone.

Denise Layne

I try to stay away from the politics of AIDS. But the people have to know that HIV does lead to the AIDS virus and education will make a huge difference.

Phil Lilienthal

With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

Iain Duncan Smith

In the time to come Japan and India are going to move closer to counter balance the rapidly increasing influence of China in global politics.

Rajeev Sharma

When I try to create better music with my students, I am least conscious about our nationalities. Politics cannot divide us.

Shinji Tanimura

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert

It is all politics. It has nothing to do with the law.

Issam Ghazzawi

Politics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.

John Arlott

I know sex, football and politics was big last time. But this time, if there is a trend, then it's definitely political.

Dieter Kosslick

Everyone understands these are young people dedicated to politics and their candidates.

Steve Sigmund

I think there's a lot of politics involved here and I think BP Amoco has a actually very solid case to bring before a judge to try to prevent the preliminary injunction from going through.

Jordan Horoschak

A strong man instils confidence in the short term, but in the long term politics is about how people relate to each other.

Husain Haqqani

Unfortunately, politics have gotten in the way. These bills have become political pawns.

Denise Lasher

I really don't know anything that is going on. I think it is all just politics.

Joseph White

All politics is local, even international politics. That border represents a convenient dividing line between two people who see the world differently.

Daniel Lund