Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.
Julie Christie

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas 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 makes strange bedfellows.
Charles Dudley Warner

It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.
Hedy Lamarr

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.
Samuel Johnson

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry A. Kissinger

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

That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.
Angela Merkel

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.
Angela Merkel

Thus, the focus on this main political goal must become more visible in EU politics and to achieve this, we need a political impulse. It must be clear what the priorities on the agenda are.
Angela Merkel

Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority.
Angela Merkel

Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller

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