"I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman." ― John Adams Topic(s): Politics Tags: write More From John Adams "While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill – little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago." "The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations." "I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth." More In Politics "I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn’t exactly win us any friends."― Fred Frith "The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal – that you can gather votes like box tops – is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."― Adlai E. Stevenson "I didn’t run for student council president. I don’t see myself in any way in elected office. I love policy. I’m not particularly fond of politics."― Condoleezza Rice