Politics Quotes

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
James barrett scotty reston - all politics are based on the indifference of the...
Carl von clausewitz, quoted by gene hackman in
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams
Herbert marshall mcluhan - politics will eventually be replaced by imagery....
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 the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
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
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwate
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
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
John Berge
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
Dick Francis
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
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
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Anon.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
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 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
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers
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
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 largely a matter of heart.
R. A. Butle
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 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
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
J. K. Galbraith
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinge
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
Frank Herbert, Dune
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 when I am in it, makes me sick.
Edward De Bono
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
Francois Arouet
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
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
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx