“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
Politics affects everything, whether you pay attention to it or not. These quotes cover power, democracy, partisanship, idealism, corruption, and the exhausting but essential work of trying to govern millions of people who disagree about nearly everything.
“I don't like politics.”
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
“You've got to watch the politics of AIDS. The politics of AIDS can work both for and against the victims of AIDS.”
“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”
“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”
“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”
“Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.”
“Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.”
“And yet, there are still people in American politics who, for some reason, cling to this belief that America is better off adopting the economic policies of nations whose people who immigrate here from there.”
“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to that arrogant oligarchy who merely happen to be walking around.”
“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”
“My shows aren't about trying to save some place, because I don't feel that's the right venue for it. That's my politics right there: Don't bring politics to my shows.”
“As a society, I think we express our cultural mores through our politics. We're trying constantly to figure out what's OK and what's not OK. And it's hard, because our society is constantly buffeted by gale force winds of technology. Things are always changing.”
“Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.”
“Growing up in politics I know that women decide all elections because we do all the work.”