There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.

Neither political party is clean when it comes to tactics that divide our people.

Public money ought to be touched with the most scrupulous consciousness of honor.

You can't get something for nothing. Everybody remembers this except politicians.

High finance trembles in its boots whenever there is some political complication.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

Times have changed; so must the lenses through which we see the political future.

Becoming a politician is the only step down I could take from being a journalist.

Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war.

To deal with individual human needs at the everyday level can be noble sometimes.

Hamas is a political party and political parties don't recognize other countries.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Politics: Poli a Latin word meaning many and tics meaning bloodsucking creatures.

My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.

I hear that melting pot stuff a lot, and all I can say is that we haven't melted.

Being born, especially being born a person of color, is a political act in itself.

The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power.

Politicians are like the bones of a horse's foreshoulder-not a straight one in it.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

We can look at history and see that [political turmoil is] fertile ground for art.

The category of sex is the political category that founds society as heterosexual.

Only a knowledgeable, empowered and vocal citizenry can perform well in democracy.

They have vilified me, they have crucified me - yes, they have even criticized me!

Nobody knows the political system better than me, which is why I alone can fix it.

I don't really consider this a political issue, I consider it to be a moral issue.

Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man.

To develop political and economic power in a capitalist society, you need capital.

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

His [the President's] office is anything he has the sagacity and force to make it.

In all political regulations, good cannot be complete, it can only be predominant.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

The international community will not accept such threats to the political process.

We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.

My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.

The good news is, the cake is baked. Barack Obama will not be reelected president.

American political culture quickly and always outpaces any attempt to satirize it.

The political process consists entirely of politicians talking out of their butts.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Candor and accountability in a democracy is very important. Hypocrisy has no place.

Politicians generally do the right thing only when all other options are exhausted.

Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will, A word's enough to raise mankind to kill.

There's been shock waves sent throughout all parts of the nation's economic fabric.

The political parties have unanimously rejected the one-man constitutional changes.

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

After a time, civil servants tend to become no longer servants and no longer civil.

More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.

The arts can bring the heart to the aid of the head, the personal to the political.

Legislators consistently put the political imperative before the national interest.

In the current climate, things that are true, brave human stories become political.

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