Politics Quotes

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
Edward de bono - politics when i am in it, makes me sick....
John berge - in the modern world, in which thousands of people...
Politics is the art of the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.
Otto von Bismarck
J. k. galbraith - politics is not the art of the possible. it...
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
John le Carre
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 perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is the science of getting more power than anyone deserves to have.
Kirk Brothers, The Revolutionary Right
To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.
William Penn
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Richard Buckminster Fulle
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
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwate
Crime does not pay... as well as politics.
Alfred E. Newman
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto Von Bismarck, remark, Aug. 11, 1867
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
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
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
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
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
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 looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.
Gilbert Highet
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Anon.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
G. M. Trevelyan
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse - Tung
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
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
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
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinge
Politics doesn? t make strange bedfellows - - Marriage does.
Groucho Marx
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
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
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
Wendell Phillips
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
Vera Brittaiin
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski