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" Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. "

Maynard Jackson

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" In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics. "

Hillary Clinton

" Money has always been in politics. And I'm not sure you'd want money to be completely out of politics. "

" Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. "

" A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. "

" 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. "

" 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

" The secret of getting things done is to act! "

Dante Alighieri

" Honor is not the exclusive property of any political party. "

" Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. "

Richard M. Nixon

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

Marianne Williamson

" If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers. "

" Don't get married until you're certain that you're marrying the right girl. How did I know my wife was the one? I'd seen her for a couple of months. I liked her. She was a very creative person and she had a very good grip on politics and business. "

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

Winston Churchill

" I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. "

Lyndon B. Johnson

" I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days. "

Gerhard Schroder

" I'm not a big politics guy. "

" Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. "

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

" It is the future, of course, which politicians grapple with, and that is why politics is so disorderly. Only history clears away some of the debris. "

Madeleine M. Kunin

" Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen. "

Winston Churchill

" When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality. "

" I really believe in the radical viewpoint. And I have always believed that one's politics and the character of his particular work are inseparable. "

Whitfield Diffie

" When I started 'CNN,' I made the decision to stay out of endorsing candidates, and let the doers make up their own minds about politics, that it wasn't going to come from me. "

" Anyone who has been around Washington politics long enough can't avoid this truism: Election-year money is like a rushing river that invariably finds cracks in any dam the reformers erect. "

" Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong. "

" Mercury emissions will continue to harm the environment and to endanger the health of children and pregnant women, until this Administration puts public health before politics. "

" I never let my politics supersede my manners. "

" We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood. "

" 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. "

" I don't like politicians, and I don't like politics. I definitely don't want to be associated with any of them. "