Politics Quotes

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

Ambrose Bierce

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

Vera Brittaiin

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.

Albert Einstein

My final warning to you is always pay for your own drinks. All the scandals in the world of politics today have their cause in the despicable habit of swallowing free drinks.

Y. Yakigawa

About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.

Randolph Silliman Bourne

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.

Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Will Rogers

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

John George Diefenbake

I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.

Harold Macmillan, Wall Street Journal, Aug. 13, 1963

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.

R. A. Butle

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.

Charles Bukowski

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership. He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.

William Allen White

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.

John le Carre

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

William Penn

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

J. K. Galbraith

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.

Gilbert Highet

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.

Theodore Roszak

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.

Joseph Sobran

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - - And hence clamorous to be led to safety - - By menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Henry Louis Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.

John Berge