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.

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.

I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.

In every country today there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics but there is politics.

I'm not an old experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.

I must not write a word to you about politics because you are a woman.

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