Politics Quote by Nancy B. Brewer

“But people were not ideal, and politics had to work with people as they were.”

— Edmund Fawcett

“Of course he was a politician. He had a lot of experience in saying nothing in a hundred words or more.”

— Kaje Harper

“politics, where what is stated is not necessarily what was actually said.”

— Atul Kumar

“You cannot get them to talk of politics so long as they are well employed,”

— Robert L. Heilbroner

“If the spirited crowd expected a speech exalting recent Union victories, they were disappointed. In keeping with his lifelong tendency to consider all sides…

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

“Since the Civil War...the most unruly, the most independent, the most republican of American citizens have been the small farmer.”

— Walter Karp

Lincoln was the Twain of our politics.

— Fred Kaplan

“Forget politics, his father had always said. Just give 'em something they need, or they'll eat you alive.”

— Joe Schreiber

“Politics had eaten away at people's heads until they in turn had begun to devour one another.”

— Basma Abdel Aziz

“...but I spoke passionately at the rallies; inspired by phrases I had read in novels and poems, I would weave words together into sounds…

— Azar Nafisi

“The new President’s speech was dark and dystopian. I heard it as a howl straight from the white nationalist gut.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.”

— Timothy Snyder