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

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinge

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Anon.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

G. M. Trevelyan

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

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

Charles De Gaulle

The teaching of politics is that the Government, which was set for protection and comfort of all good citizens, becomes the principal obstruction and nuisance with which we have to contend? The cheat and bully and malefactor we meet everywhere is the Government.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

French Prove

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams

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

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

Jacob Chanowski

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Edward De Bono

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert, Dune

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Dick Francis

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

Groucho Marx

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Ronald Reagan

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

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

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

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

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

Mao Tse - Tung

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 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

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

Charles Bukowski

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

In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Francois Arouet

Crime does not pay... as well as politics.

Alfred E. Newman

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

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04