Politics Quotes

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

Otto von Bismarck

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

Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957 - 1963)

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

Plato

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

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.

Gilbert Highet

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinge