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" I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics. "

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" We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past. "

" I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph. "

Margaret Thatcher

" When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer. "

" I tend to avoid televisions, politics, and places with velvet ropes. "

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

" I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. "

Arthur C. Clarke

" The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. "

" 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. "

" Politics in America is like stale bread. It's so yada yada that the best among us can hardly stand it. "

Marianne Williamson

" If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will. "

" Some people see me as a rabble-rouser. Some people see me as someone who does not care about what other people think about me. "

" Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. "

Winston Churchill

" I do not know much about politics, but I am trying to do the best I can with this administration until the time shall come for me to turn it over to somebody else. "

William Howard Taft

" Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary. He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn't care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn't know the difference between an immigrant and a slave. "

" No one wants to die, and no one wants to die poor. These are the two fundamental truths that transcend culture, they transcend politics, they transcend economic cycles. "

Neil deGrasse Tyson

" The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. "

" Politics is a rough and tumble business. It's not for the faint-hearted. I've got bruises and cuts from being in the political arena. But by and large, I understand how to navigate the process. "

" A political party is about an ideology. And I don't think my goals in politics can match the ideology of any political party. "

" I don't have any presidential aspirations. If the millennials want me to do it, I'd do it, though. "

" The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse. "

" It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.' "

Malcolm Turnbull

" Politics is a noble activity. We should revalue it, practise it with vocation and a dedication that requires testimony, martyrdom, that is to die for the common good. "

" It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul. "

" I never saw anything funnier than Texas politics. "

" You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in. "

" I designed collections around whatever struck my fancy... fruits, vegetables, politics, or peacocks! I entered in with no business sense. "

" When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. "

" In modern politics, polls often serve as the canary in the mine - an early warning signal of danger or trends. But polls can also be used to wag the dog - diverting attention from something significant. "

" 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. "

Adlai E. Stevenson

" When it comes to politics today, the devils' not in the details; the devil's in the big picture, more often than not just hiding in plain sight. "

Marianne Williamson