Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Politics is not really my thing.

Politics is the art of the possible.

Political and legal institutions play a central role in setting the environment that can nurture prosperity and economic growth.

Mobilize your friends and neighbors to understand that your day-to-day involvement with local government matters far more than a referendum on the White House every four years.

My life is politics, reading books and exercise.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

Politics organizes our lives. We can't disregard it. Politics has lot of muck, lot of dirt. But that doesn't mean you have to be away from it. It's ubiquitous.

Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions.

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.

Politics in a democracy is transactional: Politicians seek votes by promising to do things for voters, who seek promises in exchange for their votes.

Religion, for better or for worse, has been politicized in blatant ways that have seldom been equaled in American elections.

We've seen over time that countries that have the best economic growth are those that have good governance, and good governance comes from freedom of communication. It comes from ending corruption. It comes from a populace that can go online and say, 'This politician is corrupt, this administrator, or this public official is corrupt.'

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Politics and war are remarkably similar situations.

Politics is a matter of human transaction. I consider absolutely everything political, because all fiction involves relationships between people, and relationships between people always include matters of power, of equity, of communication.

In politics and in society, we can use our reason to rise above our parochial natures. Too bad that our elected officials don't choose to do so more often.

Politics is just a function of business now, just a tributary of the great entrepreneurial capitalist system.

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.

Good government is good politics.

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.

Research shows that when women are empowered as political leaders, countries often experience higher standards of living with positive developments in education, infrastructure, and health care.

Politics is a field where the choice lies constantly between two blunders.

Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

We're very good at talking about the individual in American politics and excellent at talking about the government. But we have little ability to even acknowledge everything that exists in the middle, and given how influential politics is on every other part of our life, I think that failure of discourse is pretty corrosive to our overall culture.

Politics is the art of the next best.

Politics runs on power and money and on ignorance.

We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy.

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.

Architecture is politics.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

The leftist vision of politics as a matter of rights begets an attitude of grievance and entitlement.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics is a game of great patience. A woman has to hold her ground and maintain dignity, holding her head high.

In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.

Politics separate men by bringing them together only superficially. Art and culture unite us in a common anguish that is our only possible fraternity, that of our existential and metaphysical community.

Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.

Cities are central to the shaping and delivery of national policy objectives, and in return, they are the places where social, environmental, and economic policies play out in practice.

Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Affairs of state tend to drive most presidents toward the center on both foreign and domestic policy, no matter where on the political spectrum they begin, and especially so in the areas of intelligence and law enforcement.

Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.

Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.

Politics is the womb in which war develops.

The intersection of political analysis and Internet theory is a busy crossroad of cliche, where familiar rhetorical vehicles - decentralized authority, emergent leadership, empowered grass roots - create a ceaseless buzz.