The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.

If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics.

Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.