• "I don't for the life of me understand how anybody could contemplate the results of the 2000 election in the US and say that electoral politics doesn't matter any more, and that Ralph Nader was right when he said there is no difference between the two parties." - Todd Gitlin Tweet
• "If nominated, I will not run if elected, I will not serve." - William Tecumseh Sherman Tweet
• "Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion." - Richard M. Nixon Tweet
• "One thing I have frankly decided is that when it comes to political reform we have two conservative parties in British politics. Both the Labour and Conservative parties have constantly and repeatedly failed to honour promises they have made about reforming, cleaning, modernising our clapped-out system." - Nick Clegg Tweet
• "Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement." - Edmund Burke Tweet
• "Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects." - Lester B. Pearson Tweet
• "When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor." - Garry Trudeau Tweet
• "Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen." - Winston Churchill Tweet
• "Those who write the editorials and those who write the columns, they simply are unaccountable. They're free to impose their cultural politics in the name of freedom of the press." - Jesse Jackson Tweet
• "Political correctness? In my humor, I never talk about politics. I was never much into all that." - Don Rickles Tweet