Politics Quotes

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
Harold wilson - a week is a long time in politics....
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
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
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
Politics is no exact science.
Otto von Bismark
Fawn m. brodie - a passion for politics stems usually from an...
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittaiin
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Anon.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Julius Henry Marx
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. Thompson
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse - Tung
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
Alfred E. Newman
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
Frank Herbert, Dune
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
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.
Otto von Bismarck
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.
Roy Hattersley
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
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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
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
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 perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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 not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
Joseph Sobran
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
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
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