Quote by Ben Jonson

“Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the private worries and hopes of the individual.”

— Theodore H. White

“Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“Besides, everyone knows politicians are the most trusted people on the planet—how could they possibly hide anything, being in constant contact with so many…

— Susan Kaye Quinn

“Tonight, I am a private citizen. To-morrow I shall be called to assume new responsibilities, and on the day after, the broadside of the…

— Candice Millard

“Interest yourself in public affairs as a duty of citizenship, but do not surrender your faith to those who discredit and debase politics by…

— Grover Cleveland

“It is part of the trivialization of politics that we give endless attention to the inner life of the politician - his private thoughts,…

— Charles Krauthammer

“After all, one wouldn’t want facts and reality—not to mention the national interest—to intrude upon partisan politics, would one?”

— Robert M. Gates

“Hence anyone who is to listen intelligently to lectures about what is noble and just and, generally, about the subjects of political science must…

— Aristotle

“It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.”

— David Galula

“Without critical work, political awareness is likely to remain superficial and rhetorical.”

— Carter Heyward

“The only thing politicians serve is their own interest. Public servant has morphed into private serpent.”

— Jarod Kintz

“The general ethos of the people they have to govern determines the behaviour of politicians.”

— T.S. Eliot