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" Good government is good politics. "

Richard J. Daley

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" I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should be an individual, standing in the middle. Anyone that belongs to a party stops thinking. "

" I was brought up with a scientific outlook on life. It's the way my father deciphers the world - whether it's football, politics or hairstyles. So I don't get anxious about the future, because I was raised to believe and accept that nothing stays the same, and the best way to survive is to adapt. "

" The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency. "

Theodore Roosevelt

" The police are not here to create disorder, they're here to preserve disorder. "

Richard J. Daley

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" I wasn't a particularly brilliant student, but on the other hand, I was very active in Student Union affairs and in student politics. "

" There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel. "

" Democrats always like to brag that their guys are smarter than the opponents and Republicans always like to brag that their guys are more moral than the opponents. But if you're looking for morals in politics you're looking for bananas in the cheese department. "

" Politics is not an exact science. "

Otto von Bismarck

" Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. "

" I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. "

" If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. "

" 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. "

" In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics. "

" War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man. "

" Part of the core information that I've been purveying is that identity politics is a sick game. You don't play racial, ethnic, and gender identity games. The Left plays them on behalf of the oppressed, let's say, and the Right tends to play them on behalf of nationalism and ethnic pride. I think they're equally dangerous. "

Jordan Peterson

" I don't even know what the issues are. I haven't paid attention to politics in a long time. It's actually not something that I really even enjoy. It's way off my radar. "

" Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. "

Winston Churchill

" 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. "

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

" The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. "

" What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? "

" Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. "

" 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. "

" Over the years, many people on a spiritual journey have asked me why I keep going on about politics, and many people involved in politics have asked me why I keep going on about spirituality. "

Marianne Williamson

" I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. "

" As a layperson, I consider myself fairly well-educated in terms of politics. My family always has been really interested in politics, and various members of my family have a hand in politics in upstate New York. "

" The basis of Ronald Reagan was his humanity. I might not have agreed with his politics, but my research - all I read about him and by him - was that he was revered because he had a big heart. He was very religious and sincere. He believed that one spoke truths because, otherwise, people would know you were lying. None of that even applies to Trump. "

" The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. "

" It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. "

Rutherford B. Hayes