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" 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

Politics

Nation

Party

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" There might be some serious fun in politics. "

" Look, we live in a very dangerous world. We know there are people who want to take away our freedoms. New Yorkers probably know that as much if not more than anybody else after the terrible tragedy of 9/11. "

" Honestly, I'm interested in politics; I'm interested in giving back in some form, performing some sort of civic duty. But I'm not exploring a run for governor or senator or anything along those lines. I'm focused on running Disney. "

" I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot. "

" The appalling reality in American politics today is that, when ideology and money mix, truth is a mere inconvenience. "

" Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did. "

" The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters. "

" To err is human. To blame someone else is politics. "

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

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Morality

Politics

Economics

" I hope that young people will also look to politics as a vehicle to not only have their voices heard, but actually to be the change makers that they want to see. They are disaffected, understandably, but I hope that young people will not only turn out to vote but also run for office. "

" Am I the only person covering politics who ever noticed that Newt Gingrich is actually a nincompoop? "

" These endless legal challenges that define elections in New York are a joke in this country, and they are the reason why it is so expensive, or one of the reasons, it's so expensive to run here and why so many people decide not to run. "

" I never lie, so if somebody asked me a question, I told them. "

" All politics to me - Indian or white - is an illusion preventing us from being authentic because we're communicating through something that isn't real to us. "

John Trudell

White

Real

" I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor. "

" I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known. "

Abraham Lincoln

Compromise

Politics

" The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional politician above everyday routine even when he is placed in formally modest positions. "

" The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. "

John Kenneth Galbraith

Man

Moral

Politics

" Politics makes me sick. "

William Howard Taft

Sick

Politics

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

" Political correctness - the rigging of politics using different rules for different groups, and buttressed by the media - ensures that Democrats always have the upper hand. "

" No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of ten thousand lakes where politics actually worked to make people's lives better, not pull them apart. "

" You have to take away some of tax breaks for the wealthy, and you have to cut back on some entitlements. Because, unless we do all of these things, it just doesn't work. And what's good theater and what's good politics isn't necessarily good economic policy. "

" The thing I love about politics and sports is that there is an end goal - winning - and there are indeed winners and losers. "

" That, sir, depends on whether I embrace your mistress or your politics. "

" The longer they talk about identity politics, I got 'em. I want them to talk about racism every day. If the Left is focused on race and identity, and we go with economic nationalism, we can crush the Democrats. "

" China-Pakistan relationship is indeed special because it transcends the changes of the times and politics and represents a fine example of friendly state-to-state interactions. "

" We must act in unison and rising above politics on the question of development of the country and empowerment of the youth to raise them as future leader in every field of our national life. "

" Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. "

" I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me. "