“I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.” — Richard M Nixon
“It will help erase the idea that politics is a second-rate profession and a dirty business.” — Robert Francis Kennedy
“Until you've been in politics you've never really been alive; it's rough and sometimes it's dirty and it's always hard work and tedious details. But, it's the only sport for grown-ups all other games are for kids.” — Unknown
“If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.” — Edna Ferber
“I believe people who go into politics want to do the right thing. And then they hit a big wall of re-election and the pettiness of politics. In the end, politics gets in the way of the business of people.” — Kevin Costner
“I do most of my business on that dirty Internet that you were just talking about, where I find there is a lot of freedom to report exactly what I want.” — Matt Drudge
“My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it's a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.” — Bertrand Russell
“After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on -- have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear -- what remains? Nature remains.” — Unknown
“Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.” — Paul Valery
“It's boring to set up systems. But nothing works without them. That is the business of politics.” — Bill Clinton
“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.” — Emma Goldman