Politics Quotes
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
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.Theodore Roosevelt
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
Politics is largely a matter of heart.R. A. Butle
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
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
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.Emmeline Pankhurst
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
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
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.Vera Brittaiin
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.Anon.
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.Otto von Bismarck
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.Dick Francis
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
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.French Prove
War is a continuation of politics by other means.Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.Henry Kissinge
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
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 is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.Oscar Ameringe
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
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
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 is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.George Jean Nathan
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.G. M. Trevelyan
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.Frank Herbert, Dune
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 when I am in it, makes me sick.Edward De Bono
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.J. K. Galbraith
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
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.Richard Buckminster Fulle
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
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
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.William Penn
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
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry Adams
