Politics Quotes

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

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H. L. Mencken

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

Theodore Roosevelt

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

Charles De Gaulle

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

Joseph Sobran

Politics is applesauce.

Will Rogers

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

Julius Henry Marx

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

Charles Bukowski

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

Will Rogers

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.

Henry Louis Mencken

A week is a long time in politics.

Harold Wilson

The bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.

Marcel Archard

Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics.

French Prove

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

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01 - 18 - 04

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

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Roy Hattersley

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

Politics is largely a matter of heart.

R. A. Butle

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 pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.

George Jean Nathan

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

John Kenneth Galbraith

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

Dick Francis

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

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

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

Dalton Camp

In politics I am growing indifferent - - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.

Francois Arouet

I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

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

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

Jacob Chanowski

Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.

Frank Herbert, Dune

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Paul Val? ry

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Henry Adams