In Pakistan politics is hereditary.

There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President.

In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.

Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.

I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day.