“Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.”
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.
“Well, purity - there's no purity in politics.”
“Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.”
“Nothing is irreparable in politics.”
“Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.”
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
“The secret of getting things done is to act!”
“The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.”
“The larger meaning here is that mainstream journalists simply cannot talk about things that the two parties agree on this is the black hole of American politics.”
“Going into politics is something people have asked me about forever.”
“Local politics, like everything else, are not what they used to be. But the fact is that our political system - like our physical existence - still breaks down along geographical lines.”
“I... grew up in politics and I used to work for the Democratic Party.”
“Pennsylvania is a very tough state people don't last long in Pennsylvania politics.”
“Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.”
“We need to dig deep and give people a reason to be optimistic just as Obama is doing in America. Because in the same way that outcome of the U.S. elections will change the course of events there and around the world, so too do politics here in Britain.”
“Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.”
“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”