Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity.
MathematicsAlbert EinsteinFinance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
MoneyThe Godfather - Teil 3, by Don LucchesiPolitics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. PearsonIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. RooseveltThey say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
Steve LargentStatecraft is the art of attending to small matters as diligently as grand ones.
Small ThingsAr-Pharazôn in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Season 1 Episode 4Someone once said that politics is little more than the systematic organization of hostilities.
Wilhuff Tarkin in Star Wars Books, TarkinPolitics is a game and a profession. It doesn't really serve the people the politicians are supposed to serve.
PoliticiansKit HaringtonIt is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
PowerAndrew JacksonTurn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph NaderAt the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.
Arvind KejriwalI think that politics needs a bit of spicing up.
Nigel Farage, July 2002What is right and what is practicable are two different things.
James BuchananIn politics, you need a feeling for what's possible and what's reasonable.
Helmut KohlDoes politics have to be injected into everything?
Sargent ShriverI really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.
Women, Women's RightsNancy PelosiWhen politics is no longer a mission but a profession, politicians become more self-serving than public servants.
PoliticiansEmmanuel MacronI'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.
Adlai Ewing Stevenson SeniorWhat we see before us is a politics devoid of kindness and truth... today, politics is not being used in the service of the people: it is being used to crush them, not to lift them up.
IndiaRahul GandhiThat's what we're missing. We're missing argument. We're missing debate. We're missing colloquy. We're missing all sorts of things. Instead, we're accepting.
Studs TerkelTo err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
Hubert H. Humphrey