Quotes about politics




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"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts."

Adams, Henry Brooks on politics
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"Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."

Adams, Henry Brooks on politics
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"In politics the middle way is none at all."

Adams, John on politics
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"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."

Ameringer, Oscar on politics
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"Growing older, I have lost the need to be political, which means, in this country, the need to be left. I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative Party because it is the party of non-politics, of resistance to politics."

Amis, Kingsley on politics    Share

"The only way you can do that [Balance The Budget, Decrease Taxes, and Increase Military Spending] is with mirrors, and that's what it would take."

Anderson, John B. on politics    Share

"Nothing is irreparable in politics."

Anouilh, Jean on politics
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"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."

Arbuthnot, John on politics
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"Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."

Aristotle on politics    Share

"What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."

Aristotle on politics    Share

"Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody."

Armey, Dick on politics
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"Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace."

Ashdown, Paddy on politics    Share

"He could not see a belt without hitting below it."

Asquith, Margot on politics    Share

"My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth."

Auden, W. H. on politics
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"It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."

Bacon, Francis on politics
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"When great questions end, little parties begin."

Bagehot, Walter on politics    Share

"A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities."

Bagehot, Walter on politics    Share

"Every political system is an accumulation of habits, customs, prejudices, and principles that have survived a long process of trial and error and of ceaseless response to changing circumstances. If the system works well on the whole, it is a lucky accident -- the luckiest, indeed, that can befall a society."

Banfield, Edward C. on politics    Share

"The politician is like an acrobat : he keeps his balance By saying the opposite of what he does."

Barres on politics
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"A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader."

Baruch, Bernard M. on politics    Share

"The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence."

Baudrillard, Jean on politics    Share

"It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him."

Baudrillard, Jean on politics    Share

"The abjection of our political situation is the only true challenge today. Only facing up to this situation in all its desperation can help us get out of it."

Baudrillard, Jean on politics    Share

"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values."

Benn, Tony on politics    Share

"The House of Lords is the British Outer Mongolia for retired politicians."

Benn, Tony on politics    Share

"Yogi met George Bush during an election campaign. Bush said Texas was important. Yogi said Texas has a lot of electrical votes."

Berra, Yogi on politics    Share

"Politics is a blood sport."

Bevan, Aneurin on politics    Share

"The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage."

Bevan, Aneurin on politics    Share

"What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country."

Bierce, Ambrose on politics    Share

"Politics is not an exact science."

Bismarck, Otto Von on politics    Share

"Politics is the art of the next best."

Bismarck, Otto Von on politics    Share

"The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue."

Bolingbroke, Henry on politics    Share

"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on politics
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"In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on politics    Share

"In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it."

Bonaparte, Napoleon on politics    Share

"I am invariably of the politics of the people at whose table I sit, or beneath whose roof I sleep."

Borrow, George on politics    Share

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