Politics Quotes

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Adams
Edward de bono - politics when i am in it, makes me sick....
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
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
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Anon.
Politics... have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams
Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Lester b. pearson - politics is the skilled use of blunt objects....
Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
Hunter S. Thompson
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
James Barrett Scotty Reston
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
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
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
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 is no exact science.
Otto von Bismark
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 the possible. originally, Die Politik ist die Lehre von M? glichen.
Otto von Bismarck
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get beat with.
Will Rogers
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Val? ry
In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
War is a continuation of politics by other means.
Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide".
In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
Francois Arouet
The argument of the broken pane of glass is the most valuable argument in modern politics.
Emmeline Pankhurst
A week is a long time in politics.
Harold Wilson
What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those.
Gilbert Highet
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse - Tung
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Julius Henry Marx
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob Chanowski
War is the continuation of politics by other means.
General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War".
Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.
Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04
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
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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
The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel Archard
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is applesauce.
Will Rogers
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
Dalton Camp