What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.
Lyndon B. Johnson

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.
Lyndon B. Johnson

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.
Aldous Huxley

In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.
Alexander Hamilton

Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody.
Dick Armey

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Richard M. Nixon

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
Richard M. Nixon

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Richard M. Nixon

Half a truth is better than no politics.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.
Hubert H. Humphrey

I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.
Hubert H. Humphrey

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey

To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Ambrose Bierce