One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be for the world an example of a genuinely free democratic just and humane society.

Politics it seems to me for years or all too long has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

In politics the middle way is none at all.

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

Politics have no relation to morals.

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.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

In politics as in poetry it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance.