Politics Quotes

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

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Mao Tse - Tung

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

Marcel Archard

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

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

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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 is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

Ernest Benn

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

J. K. Galbraith

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

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

Julius Henry Marx

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

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

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

Charles Bukowski

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

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

Charles Bukowski

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Alfred E. Newman

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

G. M. Trevelyan

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

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

Politics when I am in it, makes me sick.

Edward De Bono