"You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you"

"Every artistic expression is either influenced by or adds something to politics"

"Living in Washington, you can't take politics too seriously. I draw the line at honesty. I have no time for political hacks who say things they don't believe because they get paid to"

"I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president"

"I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend"

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

"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics"

"My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely, politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles"

"King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner"

"There is no gambling like politics"

"There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour"