We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.

My dream of politics all my life has been that it is the common business that it is something we owe to each other to understand and discuss with absolute frankness.

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

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

After you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening coast for a while and then have a hell of a close.