Politics Quotes

I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Plato

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Charles De Gaulle

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Tse - Tung

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

Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.

George Orwell

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

Julius Henry Marx

There are seven sins in the world: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice and politics without principle.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Gilbert Highet

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark

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

Charles Bukowski

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Roy Hattersley

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

What we won when all of our people united... must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. ... Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president.

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Marcel Archard

Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Brooks Adams

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

Joseph Sobran

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

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

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Chanowski

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.

Hunter S. Thompson

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips