MintQuotes

“Here we are the way politics ought to be in America; the politics of happiness, the politics of purpose and the politics of joy.” — Hubert H Humphrey

“Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.” — Joe Eszterhas

“All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.” — Ernest Hemingway

“The average educated man in America has about as much knowledge of what a political idea is as he has of the principles of counterpoint. Each is a thing used in politics or music which those fellows who practice politics or music manipulate somehow. Show him one and he will deny that it is politics at all. It must be corrupt or he will not recognize it. He has only seen dried figs. He has only thought dried thoughts. A live thought or a real idea is against the rules of his mind.” — John Jay Chapman

“Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, because the stakes are so low.” — Wallace Sayre

“So I took an interest in politics, but I don't know whether I enjoyed it! It was a wife's duty to be interested in whatever interested her husband, whether it was politics, books, or a particular dish for dinner.” — Eleanor Roosevelt