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" The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. "

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" If nominated, I will not run; if elected, I will not serve. "

William Tecumseh Sherman

" Sen. Obama comes from the old Chicago machine politics and has never taken on the special interests in his party on a major issue ever. "

" The minute somebody joins a committee... they immediately suffer from committee brain. They become wildly over-enthusiastic, over-optimistic, over-pessimistic. Committees turn people into idiots, and politics is a committee. "

" Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? "

" When the Founding Fathers arrived here in Philadelphia to forge a new nation, they didn't come as Democrats or Republicans or to nominate a presidential candidate. They came as patriots who feared party politics. "

Michael Bloomberg

" I think, in politics, half the people are gonna like you, and half the people are not gonna like you, no matter what you do or what you say... It's like there are no right answers. If there were, everyone would choose the right answers. They're all opinions. "

" What my job is, is to get on with getting the process of democratic politics, back on the road, entrenching the peace settlement, and I ask you to judge me on my record. "

" Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there. "

" He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. "

Napoleon Bonaparte

" When I was 15 years old and in the tenth grade, I heard of Martin Luther King, Jr. Three years later, when I was 18, I met Dr. King and we became friends. Two years after that I became very involved in the civil rights movement. I was in college at that time. As I got more and more involved, I saw politics as a means of bringing about change. "

" I wish I was less good-looking and more unpopular. Then I could get into politics and use my pent-up resentment about being ugly and unpopular to systematically destroy the country. "

" Nobody in a leadership level in American politics is trying to inspire the American people. Everybody needs to be goosed. The vast majority of people are not self-starters. "

" I played by the rules of politics as I found them. "

Richard M. Nixon

" We've had characters like Trump in American politics forever, characters who trade on xenophobia. "

Lin-Manuel Miranda

" 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. "

" At least there's a political input, but when you put on the robe, at that point the politics is over. "

" We tend to think of politics as bad, full of dirty tricks, negative ads, big campaigns, but I am here to explore the original meaning of politics, which is positive and has to do with balancing competing interests and looking for solutions. "

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

" Either one lives 'for' politics or one lives 'off' politics. "

" I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics. "

" We need elected officials who care more about policy than politics. "

Christine Todd Whitman

" The country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. We have to offer an alternative vision. "

" Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. "

" I didn't come up through the ranks of the conservative movement... I came to these revelations about my own personal politics in a realm in which those books, those ideas, the canon of conservatism, is nonexistent. "

Andrew Breitbart

" I mean if politics was my main motivation I would be doing politics. But I'm a filmmaker. "

" 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. "

" Public employee unions are hardly the only group involved in bare-knuckles politics. Businesses lobby fiercely, and executives make hefty campaign donations. "

" Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly. "

" 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

" It is impossible to practice parliamentary politics without having patience, decency, politeness and courtesy. "