“Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.”
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 want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.”
“Things happen in American politics in the political center. If the President will meet us in the center, there are things we can accomplish.”
“Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.”
“But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.”
“But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics.”
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
“People are fed up with the politics where candidates just rip each other apart and then the voters lose in the end because no one really knows what anybody stands for.”
“Frankly, if you do politics, you should not be thinking about your dignity.”
“I don't follow politics much.”
“I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties.”
“Well, the role of money in politics is pretty corrupting right now.”
“Oh, that lovely title, ex-president.”
“Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.”
“War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.”
“Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.”
“I can't see why anyone would want to be in politics because you get so much criticism.”