Politics Quotes

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

Lyndon B. Johnson

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

Henry Adams

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

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

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

Barry Goldwate

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

William Penn

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

Hunter S. Thompson

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

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

Otto von Bismarck

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

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

Robert Louis Stevenson

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 supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

Ronald Reagan

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.

Isaac Asimov

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

Groucho Marx

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

Plato

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

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

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

Emmeline Pankhurst

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.

Lester B. Pearson

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867

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

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

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

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

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

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

Alfred E. Newman

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 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

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

Francois Arouet

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

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

Joseph Sobran

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

Henry Brooks Adams