Politics Quotes

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The more you read about politics, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other
Will Rogers

War is nothing but a continuation of politics with the admixture of other means (Vom Kriege)
Karl Von Clausewitz

Good government is good politics.
Richard J Daley

So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology
Daniel Yergin

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.
T S Eliot

The challenge now is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hilary Clinton

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
Malcolm Forbes

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

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma Goldman

Nothing is irreparable in politics.
Jean Anouilh

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai E Stevenson

Politics, where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
Jimmy Breslin

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
David Brooks

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

Politics is the art of the next best.
Otto Von Bismarck

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics
Wendell Phillips

Like religion, politics, and family planning, cereal is not a topic to be brought up in public. It's too controversial.
Erma Bombeck

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre De Beaumarchais

She displayed great courage and deep humanity both in her public life in politics and privately coping with her prolonged medical condition [Mo Mowlam]
Charles Kennedy

Doing politics in a democracy costs money for campaigning and getting our message across and that's what we intend to do.
Hazel Blears

None of us believe countering terrorism is about party politics
David Blunkett

The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics]
Clare Short

They say that politics is show business for ugly people, but as I always crack, what would I know about that? I like a challenge
George Galloway

The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy.
Theodore H White

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
Galbraith

It will take a long time for women's effect on politics to register so that we may properly appraise it.
Florence E Allen

Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means... the need to be left. I am driven to grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics.
Kingsley Amis

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai Stevenson

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai Stevenson

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

We aim in the domain of politics at republicanism; in the domain of economics at socialism; in the domain of what is today called religion, at atheism.
August Bebel

Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Arthur Miller

In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.
Tocqueville

Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow the skunks to choose the weapons.
Joe Cannon

I think he needs time to think about the contribution he can make - I think he can make a very big contribution to British politics [on defeated elder brother David]
Ed Miliband

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.
Idi Amin

She worked hard to be as inclusive as possible and encouraged those who were at the edge of society and politics to become involved to change things for the better [on Mo Mowlam]
Peter Hain

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 Ameringer

Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick.
William Howard Taft

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Overall his period in office can only be characterised as a decade of missed opportunities in which the hopes of the British people for a new kind of politics were shattered [on Tony Blair]
Sir Menzies Campbell

Politics governs everything we do - the games we play, the way we play them, who we play.
John Arlott

In politics you must always keep running with the pack.
R A Butler

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai Stevenson

It is not telling the truth that makes politics seem negative, that makes people think all politicians do not tell the truth.
Michael Howard

In politics, there is no use looking beyond the next fortnight
Neville Chamberlain

In politics, as in poetry, it is sometimes true that it is darkest before dawn.
Larry Summers



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