American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

I have a lot of nice Italian winter clothes that make me look like a sophisticated Lebanese professor so my friend Robert and I go around pretending to be experts in Arabic politics. It doesn't work in the summer though. I don't have the right clothes.

Politics as a practise whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

I never thought of politics as a profession.

Politics is a profession a serious complicated and in its true sense a noble one.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.