Politics Quotes

The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. (Plato)
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman. View quote
Margaret Thatcher
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. View quote
Henry Adams
Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. View quote
Ronald Reagan
Politics is not a science...but an art. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. View quote
Charles de Gaulle
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. View quote
Mao Zedong
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. View quote
Lester B. Pearson
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman. View quote
David Lloyd George
People always have been the foolish victims of deception and self-deception in politics, and they always will be until they have learnt to seek out the interests of some class or other behind all moral, religious, political and social phrases, declarations and promises. (Vladimir Lenin)
It is the desire of the good people of the whole country that sectionalism as a factor in our politics should disappear. View quote
Rutherford B. Hayes
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. View quote
Winston Churchill
Without alienation, there can be no politics. View quote
Arthur Miller
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Politics is the art of the next best. View quote
Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. View quote
Groucho Marx
Honesty in politics is the result of strength; hypocrisy is the result of weakness. View quote
Vladimir Lenin
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. View quote
John Kenneth Galbraith
Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! View quote
Margaret Fuller
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. (Eugene McCarthy)
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. View quote
Vera Brittain
Geeks like to think that they can ignore politics, you can leave politics alone, but politics won't leave you alone. View quote
Richard Stallman
The essential ingredient of politics is timing. View quote
Pierre Trudeau
Politics makes strange bedfellows. View quote
Charles Dudley Warner