Politics Quotes
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.John Kenneth Galbraith
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.Dick Francis
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
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.Marcel Archard
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
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
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
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.Wendell Phillips
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.Gilbert Highet
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
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.Charles De Gaulle
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.Robert Louis Stevenson
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.Hunter S. Thompson
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
In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.Roy Hattersley
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.French Prove
Politics is the art of the possible.Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
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. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.Otto von Bismarck
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.Emmeline Pankhurst
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.William Penn
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
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
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.John le Carre
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.Will Rogers
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
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
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, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.Henry Adams
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
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.Alfred E. Newman
A week is a long time in politics.Harold Wilson
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.Charles Bukowski
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.Anon.
In politics stupidity 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
War is the continuation of politics by other means.General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
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
