Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

Politics hates a vacuum. If it isn't filled with hope, someone will fill it with fear.

I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

But I don't need to use politics as a way of making money.

In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

There can only be democracy when money is not allowed to be spent in Politics.

I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Architecture is politics.

This match is about sport and I separate that completely from politics.

Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.