Now, a lot of people have given up on government. And if you’re one of those people, I would ask that you reconsider, because things are changing. Politics is not changing; government is changing. – Jennifer Pahlka
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John W. Gardner
Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness. – Jonathan Haidt
You know, I’m a comedian the same as Bill Maher and Jon Stewart. We all came up the same way. The three of us have interest in politics; I call us fundits, we’re fundits! We’re not pundits! – Joy Behar
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. – John Kenneth Galbraith
My brother Bob doesn’t want to be in government – he promised Dad he’d go straight. – John F. Kennedy
I knew early on that I would do politics, but I would never make a living at it. I would do something else. – Jerry Springer
I have dealt with a pretty interesting mix of young people, many of whom have never been involved in any form of politics at any level who are interested in alternatives to austerity and debt, and older people who left the Labour party, mainly over Iraq, who are coming back in. – Jeremy Corbyn
When you’re a crime reporter, you see the nub of what life’s about, and you don’t have much patience for the falsity of politics. – Heather Brooke
I’m not driven to get back into politics. It’s not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I’ve been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level. – J. C. Watts
George Clooney’s ‘Ides of March’ could be the most under-appreciated movie of the year. In 20 years they’re gonna go back and say, ‘Oh, that was American politics in that time period.’ I follow politics, I love it, and that movie is so authentic. – Harvey Weinstein
I’m just sick of the way things are. We’re in an age in which we can’t live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy… What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us. – Jose Mujica
As a newcomer to America who learned to ‘speak American’ by watching movies, I firmly believe that to change the politics of immigration and citizenship, we must change culture – the way we portray undocumented people like me and our role in society. – Jose Antonio Vargas
To go from politics to news, at least the subject matter is the same, even if the view is different. – Jerry Springer
Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage. – Jimmy Breslin
The largest untapped constituency in American politics are the 300 million American citizens who have been completely left out of the immigration debate. – Jeff Sessions
Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made visible through the medium of collective voices and social movements energized by the need for a politics and way of life counter to authoritarian capitalism. – Henry Giroux
I want to see a more collective style in how our party operates, in politics as a whole. – Jeremy Corbyn
Participatory complexity may well be the key descriptor of the 21st century – in our economies, in our politics, and in our everyday lives. – Jamais Cascio
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. – Jean-Paul Sartre
What drew me to politics in the first place was the fact that I wanted to have a place to take a stand and use my voice to express what I believed in. But I’ve no longer got any political aspirations. I feel that as a politician, fifty per cent of people would hate you before you even left the house. – Jon Bon Jovi