Politics Quotes

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

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

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

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

J. K. Galbraith

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Will Rogers

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

Richard Buckminster Fulle

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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.

H. L. Mencken

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

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

Emmeline Pankhurst

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark

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

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

Henry Adams

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

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

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

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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 largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

French Prove

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

William Penn

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

Plato

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

Joseph Sobran

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

Henry Brooks Adams

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

Groucho Marx

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

Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.

Otto von Bismarck