“Politics is the womb in which war develops.”
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.
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.”
“Politics is the womb in which war develops.”
“If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.”
“There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.”
“In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.”
“Well, for me the pro-life issue has been something I've been very passionate about since the '70s, and I have been very involved in the pro-life community since long before politics.”
“You know, I'm just not going to get into American politics.”
“Politics has become unbelievably and unfortunately way too much about how much money is involved rather than what kind of ideas are involved.”
“Being out and about talking to residents and representing their views is, in my view, as important to politics as the grandstanding that takes place in Westminster.”
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
“Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.”
“When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics.”
“An idea not coupled with action will never get any bigger than the brain cell it occupied.”
“I was raised to speak out about politics and the world around me. I would do it whether I was in the public or not. It is the way I was taught. The American way.”
“Unfortunately the global warming hysteria, as I see it, is driven by politics more than by science.”
“I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.”