The word "politics" comes from the Greek politeia which…

The Latin root of the word 'politics' means 'of the people.' Politics is about something bigger than electoral politics; in that sense, I feel…

— Marianne Williamson

The strange rejection of the expert is mind boggling to me. When we're told that the worst word in politics is 'elite,' I have…

— Craig Mazin

Another word for politics in my mind is organization. You have to be organized; you have to get out there. It's not just magic.

— Tom Steyer

I looked up the word POLITICS in the dictionary, and it's actually a combination of two words: poli, which means 'many,' and tics, which…

— Jay Leno

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

— John Adams

I don't even like the word politics. It implies something underhanded and I think we need less government.

— Jay-Z

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly' meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks' meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

— Larry Hardiman

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father…

— Marianne Williamson

Democracy is not about trust; it is about distrust. It is about accountability, exposure, open debate, critical challenge, and popular input and feedback from…

— Michael Parenti

Higher education is confronting challenges, like the economy is, about the need for a higher number of more adequately trained, more highly educated citizenry.

— Margaret Spellings

One reason the United States finds itself at the edge of a foreign policy disaster is its underinformed citizenry, a key weakness in democracy.

— Stefan Halper

Politics is about the participation and engagement of the wider citizenry - to miss that point would doom us to irrelevance.

— David Blunkett

You cannot have 300-some million Americans - and really, right, the global citizenry be at risk of having their phone conversations intercepted with a…

— Ted Lieu

A well informed citizenry is the best defense against tyranny.

— Thomas Jefferson

I have spoken about what we can do as citizens, what we can do as a responsive citizenry, and this is where we have…

— Terry Tempest Williams