“Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the g-------d people.”
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“I think it's a terrible shame that politics has become show business.”
“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.”
“It is easier for women to succeed in business, the arts, and politics in America than in Europe.”
“We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.”
“Politics is just show business for ugly people.”
“After I left the White House, I kept a foothold in the business of American politics as a talk-show host, analyst, commentator, speechmaker, and occasional writer. I was no longer a practitioner, but I was still a partisan, a Democrat, a blue-stater through and through.”
“After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.”
“I think in politics, in Congress, you often do things that are Republican, or you do things because you're a Democrat. Sometimes that's good, obviously, and sometimes that's obviously bad. But in the news business, there's no such thing as Republican or Democratic news. News is news.”
“And I'm not apolitical - I'm very specific in my politics. But a lot of the time it's nobody's business unless you're over at my house having dinner.”
“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.”
“Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.”
“Politics are about preserving relationships at the end of the day, and it has nothing to do with the greater good for humanity. It's just all about business.”
“You can rule ignorance you can manipulate the illiterate you can do whatever you want when a people are uneducated, so that goes in line with corrupt business and corrupt politics.”
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
“Well there's nobody who has a more supportive husband than I do, and he has a business that he runs, and it's his own business, so he has work to do, my kids have school to do, I mean, people have - there are other things in life besides politics.”
“The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.”
“Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.”
“No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.”
“I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.”
“The first resistance to social change is to say it's not necessary.”
“Many individuals are doing what they can. But real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.”
“Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.”
“I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.”