Some of the FDA's own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA's actions.

Joseph Crowley

I think they're blown out of proportion. It's not about what he did or didn't do, it's about politics. As long as he gets the job done, what do I care?

Joy Chandler

Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside. Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.

Ricardo Montalban

There are a lot of people who want to work in politics who aren't lobbyists.

William Stairs

If I had a bill in front of the legislature and came to the Coon Supper with enough bottles of 'Old No. 7' for all the legislators in attendance, it would be called bribery. When Jack Daniel's does it, it's just politics as usual.

Andrew Johnson

Politics had nothing to do with it. We tried our best to have them in Beijing, but it simply wasn't possible given the chance of disease.

Tu Mingde

He was just an extraordinarily able guy. You couldn't work with Bill Clinton and not see it. We were philosophically in tune with each other and we took our politics seriously and it was so clear that Bill Clinton was one of the best.

Michael Dukakis

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

John G. Diefenbaker

It's one of the last places in politics that real people regularly question politicians face to face in unscripted environments.

Ray Buckley

Preval is between a rock and a hard place... He seeks to establish himself as an autonomous political actor in Haitian politics, though his (Feb. 7) election victory was in part based on his links with Aristide.

Dan Erikson

We expect better performance in the second half to follow a lackluster first half, with more uplifting assessment in the markets of issues like inflation, Fed policy, politics and earnings.

Subodh Kumar

ARENA, n. In politics, an imaginary rat-pit in which the statesman wrestles with his record.

Ambrose Bierce

I recognize that politics is very much in play here. There has to be a good relationship with the powers-that-be to try to change the physical nature of a big, old neighborhood.

Pete Witte

Politics may have failed the people of New Orleans. ... But their newspaper and other important segments of the American press did not fail them.

Tim Rutten

It was definitely an institution, a tradition. You never knew where the conversation was going to go. It could be politics, or it could be a dirty joke.

Kathy Lawrence

It's a communist country, and that will come into play at some point. It will be interesting to see how politics and business mix as these firms keep pouring money into China.

Laura Didio

Investors are beginning to see Poland in an unfavorable light and that's because of politics. Bad policy could turn good fundamentals into bad fundamentals.

Lars Christensen

There is no need for a politics of resignation.

Abhishek Manu Singhvi

I think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.

Nigel Farage

Apparently God takes reception of Holy Communion seriously. Apparently some things are more sacred than politics. Apparently it's all or nothing when it comes to being Catholic.

Carl Olson

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

Harry Hay

It is clear that the American Evangelist movement is transforming contemporary culture, American foreign policy, and global politics.

Melani Mcalister

It will be interesting to see if they accept the idea that not only actual corruption in politics needs to be addressed, but the appearance of corruption as well, ensuring public confidence and all that.

Larry Noble

I used to tell he be careful, come off of politics, but he used to tell me he was born to fight for his people.

Bernice Smith

Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur.

Janet Flanner

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwater

He was active and participatory in the community, and he was active in politics, ... He was one of those people for whom his country and community were more important than his party.

Chris Kelly

We have found that large land owners became local leaders in their communities during the early settlements. Some of the names are very prominent in state politics and some are big on a local level.

Terri Mcbride

Defied cynicism and entered politics.

Bill Pullman

Gov. Riley has asked the legislature to focus on these commonsense reforms early in the session. This is a problem that has built up for decades. We shouldn't let politics get in the way.

Jeff Emerson

If Burns really believed he'd done nothing wrong and this was all ?just politics,' he wouldn't have one of the best white collar crime lawyers money can buy.

Matt Mckenna

The FDA approval process is two parts, science and politics. We have the science, but we have not mastered the politics.

Sgt. Steve Maynard

This is much more about politics than economics.

Peter Hakim

We're really behind the curve on this. I think there's merit to these ideas. The whole thing is drawing people's attention to money and politics.

Rich Robinson

One of the things the older generation understands is government and politics.

Tish Dietrich

So many have threatened to fast unto death, but no one has died so far. I don't think the clergy should get involved in politics like this.

Harry Gunatillake

There is a thin line between politics and theatricals.

Julian Bond

REPRESENTATIVE, n. In national politics, a member of the Lower House in this world, and without discernible hope of promotion in the next.

Ambrose Bierce

Too austere a philosophy makes few wise men; too rigorous politics, few good subjects; too hard a religion, few persons whose devotion is of long continuance.

Charles De Saint evremond

We cannot continue doing politics that only speak to politicians ... we must open up to the people ... we are seeking a mandate from them for a political alternative and build a new majority.

Julio Borges

Politics was an natural as breathing to us.

Steve Holland

After you spend 25 years in active politics it's very hard to get away from it.

Alfonso Gagliano

I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

Tony Blair

No matter what people's politics are, there's no reason why we should not support the troops.

Rex King

Many factors, including politics, are keeping the price up. It would be hard for oil prices to fall below US$50 a barrel this year.

Fu Chengyu

Clearly, as far as Maryland politics are concerned, the gubernatorial election is a competitive election, ... All of us are looking at that and seeing what our strongest candidate would be.

Benjamin Cardin

That's why it pays for daters to be engaged to politics.

Trish Mcdermott

Even after such a tragedy, they (India and Pakistan) have not been able to rise beyond petty politics.

Ghulam Qadir

It's gun-to-the-head politics. If you don't approve this tax, we'll take this away from you.

David Molina

What is happening across the pages of almost every newspaper is a ruthless attempt to destroy the young challenger among the Tory modernizers' camp and to keep the Conservatives firmly on the right of British politics.

Jackie Ashley

This is our attempt to get politics out of the way. Last year, people couldn't get over the hurdle and couldn't tackle the one contentious issue. This will really help people in the future as issues become more and more contentious.

Sen. Susan Bartlett

This is a fine example of why people live in small communities. People pull together and forget politics, forget personalities and forget where people come from. They pull together in a time of need. It's just been an amazing thing to see.

Murrel Harris

We all know the decision is a political gimmick to please the backward castes and win polls. Politics should not come into creativity. This is a shameful decision. It would only reduce competence.

Rina Dhaka

Trying to take money out of politics is like trying to take jumping out of basketball.

Bill Bradley

I think for some time we will continue to see these two political groups operating separately, and it leaves the future of opposition politics very uncertain.

Lovemore Madhuku

I'm outraged and saddened by the verdict of the Yugoslav court, ... We must face the fact that this process is being driven by politics, not justice.

Peter Bell

We've got it all covered, right here at this table -- traveling, cars, politics, law enforcement and religion.

Jim Powell

Even the incurable optimists, as some of us are, are deeply worried. Six years down the line in the attempt to build democracy this is what we get: violence in the land, and a government in breach. The only thing happening is politics. It is motion without movement.

Kayode Fayemi

In a nation of laws, we would have thought that would have ended it. I think our concern is that this is not about justice. This is not about the law. This is about politics.

Michael Lombardi

There's an old rule in politics: If you're explaining, you're losing.

Brian Robertson

Politics at its worst.

Steve Maviglio

I view everything through the eyes of politics.

Scott Fawell

Time of politics in cricket is gone and we are out for serious business of improving standards of cricket in the country.

Samir Inamdar

[Penn visited Iran days before the country's national elections.] It was very important to me...that this wasn't about politics, ... There were many other forums where he could present his political views.

Phil Bronstein

The governor is playing politics with the lives of riders and workers. By leaving workers no alternative to strike, he opened the door to more privatization.

Yvette Salazar

Young generations more than other generations kind of need an issue to help them get a handle on politics and develop their interest.

Tom Patterson

Leave politics to the politicians. We know peace is just, and we are praying for peace.

Rev. Terri Heyduk

We think the United Nations, despite the many failures, has done in many ways an extraordinary job ... very often with inadequate resources, inappropriate mandates, and with horrible politics in the council, ... If the politics were less horrible, the resources more adequate ... the U.N. could do a much better job.

Andrew Mack

Any policy that could give Wyoming more dollars per capita than New Jersey is a policy that puts politics over security.

Robert Menendez

Unfortunately, we find out real quick, when it comes to politics, people in Buffalo have a real short memory.

Joseph P. Kennedy

When (the Political Reform Act) was originally written, a lot more people didn't necessarily consider politics as a full-time position.

Kathay Feng

Haiti's politics are not popular games.

Brian Concannon

I didn't stay out of politics. I served on committees but after awhile...I guess it was just time for me to come back.

Mary Bigelow

It is a cruel irony that in our effort to remove the appearance of bias and politics from our criminal justice system we have in fact achieved the exact opposite.

John Nields

Ranting about politics is her hobby. It's what gets her going in the morning. It's like coffee to Julie. We let her go -- it's actually good comedy in the morning.

Brandi Chastain

Today was to be the day when the gun was to be finally taken out of Irish politics.

Ian Paisley

He's very smart on policy and on politics. He's not a member of Congress who, if the staff didn't put talking points in front of him, wouldn't know what he was talking about.

Nathan Diament

Money in politics plays a role, and nobody should fool you otherwise, but I think El Paso is a town that leans Democratic and wants a Democrat they can believe in.

Jeremy Warren

The last eight days are the most amazing eight days in the history of American politics.

Joe Trippi

I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep.

George Borrow

Three months is a lifetime in politics.

Barack Obama

Today, we saw President Bush and the Republican leadership attempt to divide America and it backfired, instead dividing their own party, ... We saw the politics of distraction fail and fail handily.

Cheryl Jacques

The Democrats' obsession with good policy can be bad politics.

John Straayer

Government should support and defend its key industries through good policies, rather than what sometimes makes for good politics.

Gordon Nixon

It's all personal, too much politics.

Alderman Joe Charles

The fact that she is a woman does have a symbolic and motivating effect for other women to get involved in politics. Already it has galvanized women who never thought they would enter politics.

Joan Browne

It shows he's worried about Tom Campbell. Tom DeLay has always placed politics over policy.

Michael Stanley

Whether you agree or disagree with my brother's politics, a crime such as this should never happen.

Ted Bailey

You don't have to be a surgeon to enjoy these books. The economics, the politics, the turf fights -- it could be yesterday.

Dr. Leonard Rosenman

We need to take the politics out of it.

Joe Sohm

Maybe I wasn't as driven by politics as I thought I was.

William Hague

It's been my experience that you don't get very far in politics here or anywhere outside the two-party system.

Bob Taylor

All U.S. administrations, be it Republican or Democratic, must pursue the same bipartisan politics. I don't see much difference between the policy of the Republican administration or Democratic administration.

Qian Qichen

We believe that 2005 prepared 2006 to be the 'Year of Integrity' in Pennsylvania politics.

Tim Potts

It's the old-time, bare-knuckle politics. It gives people a choice, which they do not often have in the Democratic Party.

Richard Gambitta

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul Alinsky

I think it's ignorance of both the Christian religion and politics to think that Christians have to be Republican.

Amy Moore

I have been in frontline politics for 30 years now. And in all that time I have been second-guessed and underestimated.

Perry Christie

I have always said that life is more important than politics.

Jose Bono

We dropped out of most of the shroud community because of the politics and backbiting and refusal to work as a team.

Rebecca Jackson

He was a guy you could count on. That's a pretty good trait in politics, too.

Scotty Bowman

This is not about politics _ it's about good public policy and constitutional law.

Dave Menzer

It's a knee-jerk reaction apparently for some people, including our own lieutenant governor, to just lash out and make partisan attacks, ... Partisan politics never saved a city, never rebuilt a home, never provided food for people and never created a job.

Nick Ryan

Be your own politics, grow your own garden, and maybe you can help out more.

Rip Torn

I don't think that politics attracts the best and the brightest of America. It doesn't attract the most sincere people.

Dick Murphy

These are millionaire candidates who we thought would run above traditional politics, and instead they have super-sized their negative campaigns. What citizens have gotten is a very conventional campaign dominated by name calling and exaggerated criticism of both candidates.

David Rebovich

If you are not a player in a company where politics are important, you may have to recognize you are out of the loop.

Ron Krannich

When it comes to politics, you don't get that immediate effect.

Nancy Snow

They don't like any of those people. It's all politics. No matter what happens on-set, off-set, all is forgiven when you get that Oscar.

Anderson Jones

I've been in politics a long time, and I don't think there's ever been a night like this one.

William Daley

Truth no longer matters in the context of politics and, sadly, in the context of cable news.

Aaron Brown

This is sort of backdoor politics at its worst, for the worst possible reasons.

Nathanael Greene

It's not about what he did or didn't do, it's about politics.

Joy Chandler

I made it clear when I got here that I was going to be loud about my politics.

Ashley Goforth

I shall die a Texas independent. I think that this governor has so politically fractured this state that the only way to get something done is to set aside the partisan politics.

Carole Keeton Strayhorn

There is something for everybody and everyone does well in at least one aspect of the class. My business majors do well in the economic portion, my political science majors do well in the politics portion. I'm basically here to be the guide.

Tracey Salisbury

Combined with the election outcome, which will have a long-term impact on the economy, we could see a virtuous circle of politics, the economy and asset classes.

Masaaki Kanno

In cases where people are requesting asylum based on politics or a particular social group, he's very strict. Is someone fleeing forced abortion more deserving of protection than someone fleeing political persecution?

David Leopold

You can't take the politics out of disasters. That's what politicians are supposed to do: serve their constituents.

Peter May

It was studio politics at New Line.

Charles Koppelman

This is the best-kept secret in grassroots politics. So few people know about them.

Dave Haigler

Health-care decisions should be made by women, with their doctors and families -- not politicians. Lawmakers should stop playing politics with women's health and lives.

Cecile Richards

It is wrong to believe the landslide victory gave a vote of confidence on Koizumi politics.

Asahi Shimbun

Not air pollution, nor blackouts, nor soaring energy costs were enough to elevate the Million Solar Roofs bill above the politics of the day.

Bernadette Del Chiaro

Once again Democrats have put politics in front of education and needy Georgians. We find that unfortunate for the citizens of Georgia.

Heather Hedrick

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.

Dick Armey

Time and again, I am struck by how seldom I hear the word, hurriya , 'freedom,' in conversations about politics in the Arab World, ... Much more common among Arabs is the word, adil , 'justice.'

Anthony Shadid

The election result is a big challenge for politics, because of the unclear majorities it will become more difficult to form a stable government.

Peter Mueller

The state of Illinois didn't get cheated out of anything. Providing benefits to supporters is part of politics and is not a crime.

Dan K. Webb

I don't like politics per-se, ... but I want get in there try and do something good, if that is possible.

Robert Wilson

Use wedge issues and the politics of fear to divide the nation.

Stephanie Cutter

He had something you don't see in today's politics. Those who knew him knew he would stick to his word. There's very few people like that left.

Shirley Sippel

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.

Robert C. Byrd

John is conservative in his political beliefs. He is somebody, though, who has not defined his life driven by his politics or driven by his ideology.

Richard Lazarus

Let's clean up the Senate and return to politics of common ground.

Mark Pryor

It doesn't matter who is president but the sooner the region's politics becomes stable, the better.

Thaksin Shinawatra

Nothing could be more dangerous to the existence of this Republic than to introduce religion into politics.

Robert Green Ingersoll

All religious politics are restricted to support for the Russian Orthodox Church as opposed to other religious confessions.

Lyudmila Alexeyeva

In politics, Madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

Brian Mulroney

It's basic politics. Mr. Jennings did not deliver the services to the community that the community deserves, ... The community was aware of it, the community deserves its fair share and it wanted someone who could respond to their needs.

Thomas White

This is painful on so many levels. I'm very concerned about (voters') general cynicism of government and politics.

Steffen Schmidt

We pray that God touch the heart of the governor. Give her mercy, and help her look beyond politics. ... God we pray the leadership of our state will either lead, get out of the way, or follow.

Christopher Bullock

Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Fletcher Knebel

We don't need to settle for low-life politics in Oakland.

Kitty Kelly

If you want to be loved by everyone, don't go into politics.

Teresa Heinz Kerry

Political parties have to convince people that there is a real reason to vote and that will re-engage them in politics.

Nicola Sturgeon

It's old-style politics from an old-style politician. He's trying to run down Connecticut so he can build himself up.

Rich Harris

Of course, all students should learn African history, as they should learn the history of other continents and major civilizations. But this history should be taught accurately and based on the best scholarship, not ideology or politics.

Diane Ravitch

The only people who are playing politics here are uninformed staffers at the White House like Joe Lockhart.

John Czwartacki

Confirmation of what is for me a bedrock principle, that judging is different from politics.

Jim Jeffords

I absolutely could not envision getting back into elective politics, at least until my son Jake is in college.

Peter Fitzgerald

This is where politics is great and democracy is great. Having a district attorney who's got an interest in open government and having a board of any kind that's over here closed _ that's a good fight. And one that we don't have to participate or fund but can encourage.

Tom Boney

In the public's mind, when you become famous in any way, you can go into politics.

Paul Levinson

Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies & the CIA in Central America.

Peter Dale

Since there are people who can deal with politics better than I can, I have come here today to say farewell to you as the general political representative of the KLA.

Adem Demaci

There's no politics involved. It's about as fair a way you can have to determine a champion.

Jake Shields

I don't anticipate that we're going to have the same kind of issues, which had a lot more to do with lobbying and Washington politics and compromising principles. I don't see any of that happening.

Shari Steele

We don't know anything about his politics.

Daniel Stern

This is just politics, ... This is all about the race to City Hall.

Marc Johnson

Under Giuliani, ... once again became the defining credo of a city whose policies and politics had been based on the assumption that the pathological was routine.

Fred Siegel

Poor women enter politics with great difficulty. The duty of the fourth pillar of democracy - the media - is to protect such people but the owner of the newspaper misused his newspaper and even lodged a case against me.

Uma Bharati

He was a very softhearted person, and that's unheard of in politics. He did the chief's job, I believe, from his heart.

Calvin Murphy

Put aside the politics please, just for one minute. Forget about those jobs promised and think of your most important role of all, that of being a parent.

Barbara Ward

We advocate that religious figures should not interfere with politics.

Liu Jianchao

Regardless of what party you are, you have to learn how to play in the same sandbox because nothing will kill redevelopment quicker than combative local politics.

Daniel Stewart

Divorce this from partisan politics.

Frances Townsend

His reputation is one of an extremely smart, hard-line conservative. Even those on the left, who disagree with his politics, really agree that he is very, very smart.

Heather Gerken

But that's not what's happening here. You've got politics in play, and that's going to trump me every time.

John Spirko

I really think people will find that, at a personal level, there is a hole left in this Congress by Sonny's departure. People are going to miss him as a human being in a way that transcends politics.

Georgia Republican

China is sophisticated and understands U.S. domestic politics. And if they get branded a manipulator, they will understand why. It has to do with U.S. domestic politics and isn't an attack on China.

Andy Rothman

He was a founder of gesture politics with the most acute of eyes for what would now be called the photo opportunity.

John Hudson

It sounds very banal, but people have greater trust when politicians do politics and operational guys do operations.

Francois Heisbourg

We'll continue to lose good people if something's not done. We just need to start making some of the hard decisions and quit playing politics.

Dave Watson

Certainly, I'm the one in politics. I'm the one who has a public profile, ... When my wife is involved in anything is nobody's business.

Danny Williams

Wow, ... It's probably a landmark in city politics. Amounts above that are raised in congressional, senatorial and even gubernatorial races but not in Provo city politics.

George Stewart

Sponsorship, that's the guts of it. And politics.

Eddie Mcguire

I think this is scare politics. The business community had no problem with this.

Edward Kelly

Everybody gets more money, the question is how much, ... All About Oscar: The History and Politics of the Academy Awards.

Emmanuel Levy

I had assumed that all Tibetan lamas were just like the Dalai Lama, teaching that they were nonviolent people living simple lives, and they did not engage in politics. But I was wrong.

Erik Curren

I'm not really involved with politics... I'm living in my cocoon with my classical music around.

Eva Green

He was one of the white Democrats who started out as one of the conventional segregationists and then made the transition to biracial politics.

Earl Black

I would hate to think that politics have a great role to play in investigations and charges, but I've been around long enough to know they do.

Eddie Greenspan

Now is not the time for politics, ... Now is a time for New York and America to help those in dire need.

Edward Cox

This election could mean a major jump to a much more Western-style system in Japanese politics -- that's revolutionary.

Ellis Krauss

It's back to local politics. The federal dimension of Europe is more in the background than in the 1990s, and individual countries are becoming more important.

Eric Chaney

No. I probably do better not being in politics. They have too much control over you when you are in politics.

Evander Holyfield

Golf carries with it the comity and goodwill that are very rare in politics.

Zach Wamp

I think she looked at both the substance of the policy, and at the politics, and determined that a veto was not the prudent thing to do.

Ed Rivet

We talked about it on the way over to Police Plaza. But the mayor has a job to do, and you can't let politics stop you from doing your job.

Edward Skyler

Mugabe has built his power base on the politics of patronage ... and all those things are part of the support base.

Eldred Masunungure

Everybody agrees that we have to fix these levees. But declaring a state of emergency an hour before a political convention smacks much more of politics than it does of leadership. The governor has had many opportunities to fund and fix these levees before, and he hasn't done it.

Eric Antebi

There has been a fundamental change in the paradigm of politics today. I don't think Republicans even realize this.

Eric Massa

This will change Arizona politics forever. This is a tipping point (for) the Latino community and its energies.

Earl De Berge

Back in 1970 we used to say that politics was the new cutting edge of the civil rights movement. Thirteen years later, we're beginning to really believe it.

Eddie Williams

In politics, it's always an 'as compared to' game.

Elizabeth Garrett

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Over presidential politics ''is not something we want to participate in.

Eric Fehrnstrom