I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron

If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.
George W. Bush

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Alexis de Tocqueville

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.
Jackie Robinson

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold Niebuhr

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

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.
Jean-Paul Sartre

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business, that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.
Woodrow Wilson

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow Wilson

Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.
Vladimir Lenin

There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.
Vladimir Lenin

To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities; that is not to be taken seriously in politics.
Vladimir Lenin

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.
Orson Welles

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
Booker T. Washington

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
Calvin Coolidge

There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.
Margaret Thatcher

I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
Margaret Thatcher

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
Margaret Thatcher

Politics is just show business for ugly people.
Jay Leno