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" Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb. "

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" I deeply believe - and not just as a matter of politics, but even as a matter of morality - that matters about reproduction and intimacy and relationships and contraception are in the personal realm. They're moral decisions for individuals to make for themselves. And the last thing we need is government intruding into those personal decisions. "

" Brazil go into every World Cup expecting to win - so when it is in Brazil, it is expected even more. You can't understand what the World Cup means to our country. Not just the fans and players, but everybody in Brazil lets us know that they expect it. Our president, people in politics, all tell us to come back with the World Cup. "

" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "

" It's easy to be cynical about American politics. It's more important not to be. "

" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "

Barry Goldwater

" When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics. "

" If you don't like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don't like the governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don't like me - 90 cents. "

" American politics is always an open competition. "

Hillary Clinton

" In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. "

John F. Kennedy

" Politics is not an exact science. "

Otto von Bismarck

" Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. "

" How I'd like to start a new life in a distant land. Not because of racism or politics. But to be in a place that I knew hardly anything about, in a place where I wouldn't even care to know the prime minister's name. A place where names and faces would have no meaning for me. "

" Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas. "

" When applied to politics and taken to its extreme, kitsch is the mask of death. Fascism was all aesthetics. There was no core principle to it. There was no truth to it. "

" Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. "

" The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. "

" I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions. "

" It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything. "

" I am in the fighting game. I don't care about anything else. I don't watch the news, I don't care about politics, I don't care about other sports. I don't care about anything I don't need to care about. This is my sport: it is my life. I study it; I think about it all the time. Nothing else matters. "

" We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation. "

" I have no problem with technological solutions to social problems. The key question for me is, 'Who gets to implement them?' and, 'What kinds of politics of reform do technological solutions smuggle through the back door?' "

" The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961. "

" I think the fact is that anybody who goes into politics feels like 'I can make a difference'. But it's not one person, you need so many others. "

" If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. "

" I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. "

" Sitting at a candidate rally is similar to sitting in a ballyard. Both give you the opportunity to assess the technical metrics and reflect on the intangibles - what baseball calls 'make up' and politics calls 'character' - the leadership, talent and maturity to add value to a venture. "

Christine Pelosi

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics. It is at once our sword and our shield. "