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" People underestimate the hip-hop audience and the capacity to understand politics when it's part of music. "

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" Too often, politics is like bad theater. The mass media simplifies stories and personalities into their most basic, digestible and familiar bits. Listeners prefer songs they have heard before, after all. "

" The Vice-Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does. "

" You have to remember what a super PAC is: a bunch of wealthy donors who want to send a message traditionally other campaigns don't do. This is the problem with the dark money that's involved in politics right now. "

Corey Lewandowski

" Space has always been confusing to politics. "

" The typical American citizen is the business man. The typical business man is a bad citizen; he is busy. If he is a 'big business man' and very busy, he does not neglect; he is busy with politics, oh, very busy and very businesslike. "

Lincoln Steffens

" I'm not one of those actors that knows everything about politics. "

Justina Machado

" The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed. "

" I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here. "

" I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. "

John F. Kennedy

" I was very aware of office politics because I was so baffled by them. So much so goes unsaid. No one says 'you're a cheeky so-and-so,' no one says 'you're so moody,' nobody ever confronts anyone else about anything. But I'm very crass, and I'm very confrontational, and I have a temper. I had to be hyper-vigilant in every office I worked in. "

" I was looking for a new challenge and got an interest in trying to make a difference for families. You become more aware of how important families are. They are the key institution in our culture. The reason I got into politics was to try to make a difference for that key institution, whether it was tax policy, education policy, or whatever. "

" Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally. "

" If a politician murders his mother, the first response of the press or of his opponents will likely be not that it was a terrible thing to do, but rather that in a statement made six years before he had gone on record as being opposed to matricide. "

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

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

" 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

" A fool and his money are soon elected. "

" Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. "

" If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. "

" I have a desire that I want to make people feel happy through my music. I'm always trying to find optimistic ways to express myself. "

" Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion. "

" Politics should not be the least heart-filled thing we do, it should be the most heart-filled thing we do. "

Marianne Williamson

" Rude people will now & then ask me why I think I know so much about Politics. I tell them it's because I'm Smart... But that is a lie: The real reason is because I'm an incurable Gambling addict. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight. "

Calvin Coolidge

" It's time to let science and medicine, not politics and rhetoric, lead us to good, sound policy. "

" When truth takes a backseat to ego and politics, trust is lost. "

Patrick Lencioni

" Electoral politics was always an objective of the Black Panther party, so Barack Obama is a part of what we dreamed and struggled and died for. "

" Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. "

" Bonnaroo has kind of become the granddaddy of all American festivals. The thing I love about it most is that it wasn't born out of picking the top ten bands off the Billboard chart and creating a festival around it. "

" Politics makes strange bedfellows. "

Charles Dudley Warner