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" You cannot spend your way out of recession or borrow your way out of debt. "

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" 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. "

" Politics with me isn't theater. It's performance art. Sometimes, for its own sake. "

" 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. "

" Politics is the womb in which war develops. "

Carl von Clausewitz

" I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice. "

" The stakes they play for in politics are paper and money. The chips they play with are your life. "

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

Christine Todd Whitman

" The world is governed by opinion. "

William Ellery Channing

" One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless. "

Frank Lautenberg

" Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. "

" Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that. "

Lamar Alexander

" If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today. "

" It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat somebody. "

Richard M. Nixon

" Politicians are actors, too, don't you think? Usually, if you like people and you're outgoing, not a shy little thing, you can do pretty well in politics. "

" The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship. "

" Everything in politics is politically motivated, didn't you know? "

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

" A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics. "

" Social equity is based on justice; politics change on the opinion of the time. The black man's skin will be a mark of social inferiority so long as white men are conceited, ignorant, unjust, and prejudiced. You cannot legislate these qualities out of the white - you must steal them out by teaching, illustration, and example. "

John Boyle O'Reilly

" One thing I like about boxing is that I will not have to deal with the same kind of politics that I had to in skating. In boxing, it is not about your appearance, or how your costume looks, what color it is, or how much it costs. "

" Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. "

" Real politics are the possession and distribution of power. "

Benjamin Disraeli

" Of course you can't 'trust' what people tell you on the web anymore than you can 'trust' what people tell you on megaphones, postcards or in restaurants. Working out the social politics of who you can trust and why is, quite literally, what a very large part of our brain has evolved to do. "

" It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.' "

Malcolm Turnbull

" I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. "

" Oh, that lovely title, ex-president. "

Dwight D. Eisenhower

" Hope springs eternal, even in politics. "

" It always seemed to me ironic that the McCain campaign kept referring sneeringly to Obama's meager resume - 'a mere community organizer!' - before he entered electoral politics. It was Obama's experience as a community organizer that proved such a killer app when he applied that skill to the Internet. "

" Politics isn't just a game of clashing parties and competing interests. The right reason is to challenge the status quo, to serve the common good, and to leave this nation better than we found it. "

" The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President. "

Hunter S. Thompson

" 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. "