politics quotes

• A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. (Theodore Roosevelt) [politics/avoidance]
• Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. (Robert Frost) [poetry/misfortune/politics]
• Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. (Ronald Reagan) [politics]
• 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) [politics]
• When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man. (Herbert Hoover) [construction/war/politics]
• Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. (Frank Zappa) [politics]
• The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible. (Hillary Clinton) [politics/art]
• In politics the middle way is none at all. (John Adams) [politics]
• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. (John Adams) [politics/war/philosophy]
• No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny. (Hannah Arendt) [politics/tyranny]
• Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics. ( Aristotle) [science/politics]
• Politics will sooner or later make fools of everybody. (Dick Armey) [politics/willpower]
• I am really sorry to see my countrymen trouble themselves about politics. If men were wise, the most arbitrary princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the freest government is compelled to be a tyranny. Princes appear to me to be fools. Houses of Commons and Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something else besides human life. (William Blake) [politics/men/government/tyranny]
• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. ( Napoleon I) [politics/mistake]
• In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap. ( Napoleon I) [politics]
• In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it. ( Napoleon I) [politics/business]
• You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics. (Charles Bukowski) [time/politics]
• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. (Edmund Burke) [politics/wisdom]
• A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life. (Robert Byrne) [politics/rest/life]
• It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. (Thomas Carlyle) [people/politics]
• Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul -- politics does the same thing for the body. (Joyce Cary) [religion/politics/thing/soul & body]
• Half a truth is better than no politics. (Gilbert K. Chesterton) [truth/politics]
• In war you can be killed only once. In politics, many times. (Winston Churchill) [war/politics]
• Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. (Winston Churchill) [politics/war/war/politics]
• The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. (Eldridge Cleaver) [politics/religion/right/books]
• My objection to Liberalism is this -- that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind -- namely, politics -- of philosophical ideas instead of political principles. (Benjamin Disraeli) [business/life/politics/]
• Finality is not the language of politics. (Benjamin Disraeli) [language/politics]
• In politics, nothing is contemptible. (Benjamin Disraeli) [politics]
• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident. (Benjamin Disraeli) [gambling/politics/power/more]
• Politics is far more complicated than physics. (Albert Einstein) [politics/more]
• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short, in all the management of human affairs. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [concentration/politics/war/human]

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