Politics Quotes

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

Barry Goldwate

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

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

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

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

Frank Herbert, Dune

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

Emmeline Pankhurst

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

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

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

Charles De Gaulle

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

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

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

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)

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

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

Marcel Archard

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Dick Francis

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

Groucho Marx

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

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

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Plato

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

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

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

Hunter S. Thompson

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Roy Hattersley

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth 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

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Joseph Sobran

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

Francois Arouet