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" Remember that a civilized nation cannot just have one party; if there were only one party, this would merely be a dictatorship. Politics could not advance. "

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" I know from personal experience that engaging with your community and helping others helps foster a sense of shared sacrifice and - at a time when our politics seem more focused on tearing us apart than bringing us together - that shared sacrifice will help us rekindle the national unity that has made us the strongest nation in the world. "

Tammy Duckworth

" I'm a girl, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate greatness and the struggle of sports. My situation - and I've always said this, even in politics - is may the best man win. I'm not team-bound. "

" People in politics always say they're spending time with their family, but in my case, it's a big family. We got 23 grandkids, so I get to spend a lotta time with them, and it's extraordinarily enjoyable. "

" When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites. "

" To balance China, the democracies will need new friends - and India with its fast-growing economy, youthful population, and democratic politics seems the obvious candidate. "

" You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history. "

" People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House. "

" In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. "

Winston Churchill

" Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. "

" Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is. "

" 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

" I am a coolie and the son of a coolie. I was born with the poor, and I am still poor. My sympathies have always been with the struggling mass. "

" Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

" Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man. "

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

" Politics makes strange bedfellows. "

Charles Dudley Warner

" Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort. "

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

" I don't think anybody in the entertainment industry or in politics is surprised by the fact that those worlds are rife with promiscuity and irresponsibility - certainly a lack of accountability. "

" Where there is politics or economics, there is no morality. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. "

" In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. "

Franklin D. Roosevelt

" As you make your bed, so you must lie in it. "

Daniel J. Boorstin

" I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious. "

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

" Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out. "

G. M. Trevelyan

" What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics. "

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

" I am making myself less frequent in the Lady World than I have been. I must keep up my dignity, or rather, I must attend more to politics and less to love. "

" Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. "

Grover Cleveland

" It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms. "

Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.