What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barricades, but rather evolves out of attitude. If it results from anything, it must be levity. - Tom Robbins What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals. - John Avlon Partisan politics has no place in the classroom. - Juan Cole What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind? - Rahm Emanuel I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. - Dean Koontz Motivated more by partisan politics than by national security, today's Democratic leaders see America as an occupier, not a liberator. And nothing makes this Marine madder than someone c...

There will be no politics, no ifs and buts; if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects. - Ian Botham It's such a beautiful sport, with no politics involved, no color, no class. Only as a youngster can you play and as a pro can you win. The game has kept me young, involved and excited and for me to be up here with gems of baseball. - Jack Buck Half a truth is better than no politics. - Gilbert K Chesterton If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics. - Will Rogers If you say you're a unifier, you expect and usually get applause. I'm a divider. Politics is division by definition, if there was no disagreement there would be no politics. The illusion of unity isn't worth having, and is anyways unattainable. - Christopher Hitchens The best politics is no politics. - Henry M Jackson I don't like to talk about things where you...

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. - Eric Alterman If there is a ground zero in the cultural wars, it is Missouri, a state where pro-life groups are strong and well organized and their agenda dominates local politics. - Eleanor Clift They were unironic enthusiasts for all the mass pleasures the culture offered: television, NASCAR, cruises, Disney World, sports, celebrity gossip, and local politics. - Thomas Mcguane Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married. - C Northcote Parkinson

Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third. - Ambrose Bierce I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics. - Kate Millett

The ability of the 1 percent to buy politicians and regulators is nothing new in American politics - just as inequality has been a permanent part of our economic system. This is true of virtually all political and economic systems. - Eric Alterman Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country. - Ambrose Bierce The history of American politics is littered with bodies of people who took so pure a position that they had no clout at all. - Benjamin C Bradlee The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. - Chuck Palahniuk It is money, money, money! Not ideas, not principles, but money that reigns supreme in American politics. - Robert Byrd I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president. - James Carville The whole framework of the presidency is getting out o...

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman. - John Adams Simon's dark eyes were serious. "I trust you," he said "I don't trust him ." He cut his glance toward Jace, who was walking a few paces ahead of them, apparently conversing with the cat. Clary wondered what they were talking about. Politics? Opera? The high price of tuna? - Cassandra Clare And you don't want to always write about politics just for the sake of writing about politics. - Billie Joe Armstrong If they [Plato and Aristotle] wrote about politics it was as if to lay down rules for a madhouse. And if they pretended to treat it as something really important it was because they knew that the madmen they were talking to believed themselves to be kings and emperors. They humored these beliefs in order to calm down their madness with as little harm as possible. - Blaise Pascal Heaven doesn't only teach humans about virtue and divinity. It also shows us about ...