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Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

Politics is not my life. I have a career in radio and another career in film.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life in politics. When I'm finished with my term as governor, I'm going back to the life that's waiting for me in the private sector.

I hate it when politics play too large part in the sport.

It will no longer be war that is the continuation of politics by other means, it will be what I have dubbed 'the integral accident' that is the continuation of politics by other means.

We expected that people were just waiting for the collapse of the Soviet Union, or at least for its retreat, and they were going to be full of initiative in all areas of life - in culture, in economy and in politics.

I got politics and economics moving and then others took over.

The thing about American politics, as I've learned, is there is no choice.

Politics makes strange bedfellows.

Working together during the past three years, we have confounded the skeptics and the cynics. We've shown that here in Virginia, Democrats and Republicans can come together, put politics aside, and make tough decisions when times demand it.

At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

Ray Charles' revolutionary approach to music was also reflected in his politics and his deep and abiding commitment to Martin Luther King and the plight of African-Americans. Ray Charles may not have been on the front lines, but he put his money where his mouth was.

Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.

Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say In spite of all! has the calling for politics.

I don't believe your soul mate has to share your politics.

I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me.

I don't really wanna talk about politics, I'm not clever enough.

I think people are just really disappointed, disappointed with Blair as well, who's just like Bush's lapdog. I think everyone's just disillusioned with politics in our country, and it must be the same in your country.

Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.