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

Lin-Manuel Miranda

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" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. "

" 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

" Voters don't decide issues, they decide who will decide issues. "

" I will go to the next election saying to Australians, vote for me, vote for the Liberal Party, and I will become your PM. So I'm offering myself as the alternative PM - that's one way people describe the Leader of the Opposition - but I'm not in politics for myself to realize a personal ambition. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics. "

" Animals have come to mean so much in our lives. We live in a fragmented and disconnected culture. Politics are ugly, religion is struggling, technology is stressful, and the economy is unfortunate. What's one thing that we have in our lives that we can depend on? A dog or a cat loving us unconditionally, every day, very faithfully. "

" 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. "

" The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist. "

" I don't know about politics so much. I'm a professional athlete. "

Khabib Nurmagomedov

" Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism. "

" Self-preservation shouldn't be the first instinct in politics. It should be doing the right thing for the country. "

Doing The Right Thing

" 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

" Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life. "

" We must reduce the influence of money in politics, beginning by overturning Citizens United and taking back our system from the millionaires and billionaires who can give unlimited and undisclosed amounts of money to influence our elections. "

" Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. "

Eleanor Roosevelt

" The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. "

" My politics were pretty anarchistic until 1969 when the Montreal police went on strike. Within hours, mayhem and rioting broke out and the Mounties had to be called in to restore order. It instilled in me that one's convictions can be subjected to empirical test. "

" I do have a political agenda. It's to have as few regulations as possible. "

" 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. "

" Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. "

" Indian democracy's greatest strength is that we have always put the nation above politics. "

Atal Bihari Vajpayee

" The proliferation of outlets that digital technology has enabled has itself contributed to the changing nature of what we regard as 'news' and the way in which many citizens perceive politics. "

Malcolm Turnbull

" We've seen a lot of dirty politics in Ireland. "

" Harvard's Kennedy School of Government asked me to serve as a fellow at its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Public Policy. After my varied and celebrated career in television, movies, publishing, and the lucrative world of corporate speaking, being a fellow at Harvard seemed, frankly, like a step down. "

" Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. "

" I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color. "

" I get asked a lot about getting into politics. I say, 'Take a look at politics. You tell me what seems appealing about that.' "

" I just use fashion as an excuse to talk about politics. Because I'm a fashion designer, it gives me a voice, which is really good. "

Vivienne Westwood

" The most important political office is that of the private citizen. "

Louis D. Brandeis