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

It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy.
Stephen Leacock

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles de Gaulle

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Charles de Gaulle

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

From politics, it was an easy step to silence.
Jane Austen

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.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

Politics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.
Colin Powell

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.
Pope John Paul II

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
William Blake

Politics have no relation to morals.
Niccolo Machiavelli

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T. S. Eliot

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
George Orwell

If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell

Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
P. J. O'Rourke

Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy.
P. J. O'Rourke