Politics Quotes

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

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

Joseph Sobran

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

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

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

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 doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.

Groucho Marx

The Liberals are the flying saucers of politics. No one can make head nor tail of them and they never are seen twice in the same place.

John George Diefenbake

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

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

French Prove

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

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

Otto von Bismarck

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".

Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.

Paul Val? ry

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

J. K. Galbraith

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

Roy Hattersley

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

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

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

G. M. Trevelyan

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Dick Francis

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

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

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

Charles Bukowski

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

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

Julius Henry Marx

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