Politics Quotes

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

Henry Brooks Adams

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

J. K. Galbraith

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

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

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Jacob Chanowski

Politics is no exact science.

Otto von Bismark

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

Joseph Sobran

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

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

William Penn

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

Julius Henry Marx

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

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

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

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

Paul Val? ry

War is the continuation of politics by other means.

General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".

War is a continuation of politics by other means.

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

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

Mao Tse - Tung

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

Wendell Phillips

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Groucho Marx

Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.

Will Rogers

I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.

Theodore Roosevelt

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.

James Barrett Scotty Reston

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

Charles Bukowski

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

Ambrose Bierce

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

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

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life.

Saul David Alinsky

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.

Herbert Marshall McLuhan

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 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

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

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle