I think bad politics are incredibly dangerous, so it's important to make sure that people are communicating well. Culture and morale are super important. It's best to not force it, but let it happen organically and genuinely.
In politics, you never know who's going to die, retire, or - in Illinois - get indicted.
I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
I would never enter politics, but I will go out and vote.
Mamata Banerjee and Narendra Modi, the ultimate didi and dada of Indian politics, should really commiserate.
The AAP was not the first group of well-meaning outsiders in politics.
Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it's very important to know that politics.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.
I am humble Abraham Lincoln. I have been solicited by my friends to become a candidate for the Legislature. My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.
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 have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
It shouldn't be a matter of who deserves help or not, but of whether we want to be a country that allows its neediest to continue to need. Condemnation of individuals and their choices mutes all these other really important logistical questions about funding and budget and politics.
At twenty, I implicitly dissociated poetry from politics.
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
If you see something is going wrong within politics and the world today, then some Hip Hop artist is gonna come along and get straight with it. If they think that there's a lot of racism going on then there's another Hip Hop artist who's gonna come out and speak their mind.
I knew I would work in a community that I would like to live in, but I had no idea that I would ever go into politics, even though some of my classmates thought I would.
The days of pay-to-play politics is over.
Politics has friendship, enmity, intrigue and even humour.
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
The person I liked the best was Gerald R. Ford. He was the most decent man in politics I ever had any relationships with.
I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary.
Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity.
When you get together in a group, it becomes like a family, with the different personalities and the politics that comes with being in a band. It's different than bringing something in by yourself.
A war for a great principle ennobles a nation.
I don't like compromise. In politics, you have to always choose a compromise, and sometimes, that, I don't like.
The basis of my politics is, first of all, fairness and honesty.
I adore my family. I don't love their politics. I think they're wonderful parents. They were dreadful at parenting.
There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.
In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.
Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down.
Throughout my years championing for civil rights, analyzing politics and advocating on behalf of the voiceless, I am disturbed the most when harmless children suffer because of politics or detrimental policies.
Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
I've accepted that I was a failure in politics. I was not qualified for the job.
Indian writers in English are rank individualists. Even among the progressives, there is a strain of anti-leftism, or at least a suspicion of any organized politics.
Instead of minority and majority politics, if we try and give the same rights to all, it is not polarisation. This is the core value of our Constitution.
I'm seeing too much power being concentrated in the executive branch, and so our system of government is really in jeopardy, and more importantly, the overwhelming issue that we've had for a long time is money in politics. I see that problem getting worse.
Thanks to advancements in gender equality, you now have salty women like me who not only follow politics but also share their opinions on the daily.
Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand.
I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.
I weep for the liberty of my country when I see at this early day of its successful experiment that corruption has been imputed to many members of the House of Representatives, and the rights of the people have been bartered for promises of office.
I didn't go into politics because I wanted to win a popularity contest.