Famous Quotes About politics

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows - marriage does.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

I have no ambition to govern men it is a painful and thankless office.

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

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics.