Politics Quotes

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
Charles bukowski - you begin saving the world by saving one person...
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
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinge
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers
I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.
Lyndon B. Johnson
William penn - to do evil that good may come of it is for...
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski
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
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
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 not the art of the possible. It consists of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
J. K. Galbraith
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Anon.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
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
To bemoan the messiness of politics is not just a folly it betrays a dangerous impatience with basic realities. It is like becoming disturbed that people do not fall in love sensibly - - And so deciding to computerize the problem.
Theodore Roszak
Politics is largely a matter of heart.
R. A. Butle
Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.
French Prove
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
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
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
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
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 no exact science.
Otto von Bismark
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 argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.
Otto von Bismarck
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
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
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
Theodore Roosevelt
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
Plato
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry
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
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
Francois Arouet
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