Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.
David Attenborough

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you.
Pericles

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth.
Peter Steele

Let's put aside the politics and trust the people. Let's embrace the unique opportunity we all have; take the heat and make the hard and difficult decisions, knowing that we're doing it to make things better for the people of Illinois.
Rod Blagojevich

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

Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.
Stendhal

The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on; this is the black hole of American politics.
Michael Pollan

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Jimmy Breslin

First rule of politics: you can't win unless you're on the ballot. Second rule: If you run, you may lose. And, if you tie, you do not win.
Donald Rumsfeld

In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it.
Donald Rumsfeld

Politics is human beings; it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical.
Margaret Fuller

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

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
David Lloyd George

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.
Robert Redford

Everything is politics.
Thomas Mann