Politics Quotes
It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.Herbert Clark Hoove
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.Dalton Camp
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.John Adams
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.Vera Brittaiin
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.Peggy Noonan
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry Adams
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
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, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.Roy Hattersley
Politics should be the part - Time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.Lucille Ball
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.John Kenneth Galbraith
Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.Lester R Bittel
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Francois Arouet
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 applesauce.Will Rogers
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
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.George Jean Nathan
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.Anon.
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.Groucho Marx
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
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
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
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.Alfred E. Newman
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.Fawn M. Brodie
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.French Prove
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
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
A week is a long time in politics.Harold Wilson
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.Dick Francis
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 the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.J. K. Galbraith
