Politics Quotes - page 3

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! (William Blake)
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. View quote
H. L. Mencken
The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews. View quote
Sandy Koufax
The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other. View quote
Will Rogers
Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. View quote
Will Rogers
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did. View quote
Jimmy Durante
It's called political economy because it is has nothing to do with either politics or economy. View quote
Stephen Leacock
In politics, an absurdity is not an impediment. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics. View quote
Wendell Phillips
Whoever decides to dedicate their life to politics knows that earning money isn't the top priority. View quote
Angela Merkel
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. (Henry Kissinger)
Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out. View quote
David Horowitz
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. View quote
Charles Bukowski
War is politics by other means. View quote
Carl von Clausewitz
Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems. View quote
Fritz Sauckel
In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens you can bet it was planned that way. View quote
Franklin D. Roosevelt
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains. View quote
Walt Whitman
Finality is not the language of politics. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Equations are more important to me, because politics is for the present, but an equation is something for eternity. (Albert Einstein)
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. View quote
Lyndon B. Johnson
I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians. View quote
John F. Kennedy
To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. View quote
Ronald Reagan