Politics is deliberately making things better for some people by deliberately making them worse for others.
Politics is for puppets.
Every political system is flawed. And every bureaucracy is corrupt.
Art is simply politics’ sweeter tongue.
Your own government lies as a matter of course, as a matter of policy…
We can either play politics or we can do the job.
This is politics. Even when you’re not campaigning, you’re campaigning.[to Tom]
Since I’ve entered politics, I’ve learned that the line doesn’t go out from the middle to the left and the right. It goes in a circle.[to Laura]
Politics, it’s a different type of problem solving. Most of it is new to me, but some things, they remain unchanged. Find what a person wants, then either withhold it or provide it, and they’ll do anything.
I hate every country in the universe, brother! They’re job placement programs for the politicians that invent them.
All politics is a personality cult now.
When it comes to politics, there’s not much difference between making the right friends and the right enemies.[to Claire]