"Politics is the art of making possible what appears to be impossible." Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Politics and crime, they're the same thing." Mario Puzo (from The Godfather, Part III)

"Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed." Mao Tse-Tung

"The greatest challenge that the world faces is the growing chasm between rich people and poor people."  Former U.S. President & Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jimmy Carter

"I don't believe that government is the source of all our problems or the solutions to them." Hillary Rodham Clinton

"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think that it's important."  Former Sen. Eugene McCarthy