Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul ValeryNo science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Jacob BronowskiMediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed. [Does that explain politicians?]
Hans EnzensbergerPolitics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest BennRobin Cook's contribution to British politics was immense. He was a politician of principle who fought hard for the things he believed in. He will be greatly missed. [on Robin Cook]
Michael HowardYou will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motive. Never complain and never explain.
Stanley BaldwinGood government is good politics.
Richard J DaleyPolitics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself.
Woodrow WilsonHere are a list of Quotes from the delightful Northern Irish Comedian Danny McCrossan
Even the most powerful lie detector invented couldn’t drag a secret out of a woman, however, women rarely have lunch with lie detectors… - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian
See women need to talk because they feel like they have to have adequate levels of communication in order to sustain a healthy and open relationship, whereas men are only driven to speak because of matters beyond their control, like not being able to find clean socks. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
In Pagan times, uninspired people made sacrifices at the altar, and today, thanks to marraige, many still do. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
When women are bored they do the usual things, they eat, they go shopping, they neurotically judge the looks of other women, but men, men invade another country! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Anything that I’ve ever done that ended up worthwhile, initially scared me to death. Wether it was walking out on stage for that very first time, or asking a girl to include me in her plans for the future, but you know what, You have to risk everything sometimes or you risk even more. It’s not the challenges we face that define us, it’s the actions we take. - Danny McCrossan -Northern irish Comedian.
Everyone had big plans for me when I was younger, it was a cliche “Danny can do anything he wants to do” So I did the only thing I ever thought was worthwhile, bring laughter into the world. How I came to been seen as somewhat of a dissapointment to all those people who had made plans for me, well that still makes me chuckle. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
You learn alot in your teenage years, for instance I learned that if you’re ever being chased by a police dog, try not to go through a little tunnel, then onto a mini seesaw and then jump through a ring of fire, they’ve trained for that y’see. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Asking people in Northern Ireland what they think of politics is like asking the Jews what they think of Hitler. - Danny MCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
There are too many warnings on packaging these days - defrost before eating - Use as directed - I mean, what’s next, you buy a packet of condoms, warning - may contain nuts! - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
I say don’t conform, don’t allow yourself to be pigeon holed, it’s no good for the soul, and the pigeon doesn’t enjoy it either. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
I remember how nervous I was my very first gig and I remember when I walked out on stage and spoke those words, how the audience laughed and laughed. I swore, there and then, that one day I would have my revenge. - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
The sign said “This door to remain closed at all times” Correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t that defeat the purpose of a door? - Danny McCrossan - Northern Irish Comedian.
Danny McCrossanI am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.
Sir Oswald MosleyA week is a long time in politics.
Harold WilsonPolitics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
GalbraithA sporting system is the by-product of society and its political system, and it is just boyhood dreaming to suppose you can ever take politics out of sport.
Peter HainThe movies were custard compared to politics.
Nancy ReaganHe made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government [on Robin Cook]
John PrescottThey took us out to dinner and interrogated us in a friendly way about life in England and what we thought and politics [on an apparent KGB interview he had!]
David CameronThe more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other
Will RogersPolitics is not a bad profession. If you succeed, there are many rewards; if you disgrace yourself, you can always write a book.
Ronald ReaganYou begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles BukowskiI've always wanted to serve my country in some capacity. But many years ago, my father said he wanted me to run the brewery and he'd do politics.
Pete CoorsThere are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario CuomoI am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T S EliotI happen to think that American politics is one of the noblest arts of mankind; and I cannot do anything else but write about it.
Theodore H WhiteWithout alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur MillerI have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Harold McMillanLet me tell you, sisters, seeing dried egg on a plate in the morning is a lot dirtier than anything I've had to deal with in politics.
Ann RichardsIn politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H G WellsPolitics is a profession; a serious, complicated and, in its true sense, a noble one.
Dwight EisenhowerA typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
Theodore RooseveltIn war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.
Winston ChurchillI agree with you that in politics the middle way is no way at all.
John AdamsThe sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
Reinhold NiebuhrIn politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry SummersUniversity politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small
Henry KissingerIn their obsession with turning comedy into a branc of left wing politics, they forgot that the only point of comedy is to make people laugh.
Bernard ManningPolitics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi AminThe Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics]
Clare ShortThere are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
GalbraithThere's a hell of a lot of politics in football.
Tommy DochertyNone of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics
David BlunkettWe need the highest activity, true workers politics!
Otto BraunPolitics is definitely overrated, sometimes it is best simply to try to do away with it as much as possible.
Henry JacksonI'm not a politician of your ordinary type. Most politicians - and most politics - are boring.... I don't think I am boring
George GallowayPolitics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma GoldmanThe bedfellows politics made are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship.
Marcel AchardThose who would tread politics and morality apart will never understand the one or the other
John MorleyYou can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.
Harry S TrumanThe 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 G DiefenbakerNothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean AnouilhMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke
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