Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is
considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not
knowing stuff?
-Tina Fey
Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
-Edmund
Burke
Politics and the shape of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and
without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't concern
themselves with politics.
-Albert Camus
Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics
are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
-P.J. O'Rourke
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 are not the task of a Christian.
-Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed
us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.
-Louise
Bogan
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
-Vera
Brittain
Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice
cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.
-W.H.
Auden
Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.
-Paul
Krugman
Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money to even get
beat with.
-Will Rogers
Politics have no relation to morals.
-Niccolò Machiavelli
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
-Arthur
Schlesinger, Jr.
Politics in America is the binding secular religion.
-Theodore H.
White
Politics is a matter of choices, and a man doesn't set up the choices
himself. And there is always a price to make a choice. You know that.
You've made a choice, and you know how much it cost you. There is always
a price.
-Robert Penn Warren
Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are
fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions.
-Albert Einstein
Politics is a process which should slowly bring to public all the
private worries and hopes of the individual.
-Theodore H. White
Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that
others are wrong.
-Jean-Paul Sartre
Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards.
-Max Weber
Politics is about compromises... really stupid compromises.
-Bill
Maher
Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.
-Sean
Wilentz
Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in
the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.
-George McGovern
Politics is applied biology.
-Ernst Haeckel
Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.
-Jimmy
Durante
Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for.
-Jerry
Rubin
Politics is just like show business, you have a hell of an opening,
coast for a while and then have a hell of a close.
-Ronald Reagan
Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
-Variously attributed
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with
the least possible damage.
-Edouard Herriot
Politics is like navigation in a sea without charts, and wise men live
the lives of pilgrims.
-Joyce Carey
Politics is like the bumper cars at the amusement park. It's a delusion
to think that by refusing to move, you can protect yourself from being
hit. (From The Weekly Standard)
-Variously attributed
Politics is like the stock market: it's a bad business for people who
can't afford to lose.
-Richard M. Nixon
Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.
-Dalton Camp
Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
-Larry Flynt
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 is not about winning for the sake of winning.
-Paul
Wellstone
Politics is not an exact science.
-Otto von Bismarck
Politics is not just about power and money games, politics can be about
the improvement of people's lives, about lessening human suffering in
our world and bringing about more peace and more justice.
-Paul
Wellstone
Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics
is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by
what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
-Paul
Wellstone
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between
the disastrous and the unpalatable.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is organized hatred, that is unity.
-John Jay Chapman
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is
thought necessary.
-Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is show business for ugly people.
-Sonny Bono
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 is the art of controlling your environment.
-Hunter S.
Thompson
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists
or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
-Ernest
Benn
Politics is the art of postponing decisions until they are no longer
relevant.
-Henri Queuille
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs
which properly concern them.
-Paul Valery
Politics is the art of the possible.
-Otto von Bismarck
Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without
possessing merit.
-P.J. O'Rourke
Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
-Ambrose
Bierce
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 is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience
you have, the worse you get.
-Kinky Friedman
Politics is the pursuit of trivial men who, when they succeed at it,
become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
-George Jean
Nathan
Politics is the science of urgencies.
-Theodore Parker
Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.
-Sidney
Hillman
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
-Lester B. Pearson
Politics is too partisan, and sometimes patriotism is cast aside.
Patriotism is honor and love of your country and your brothers and
sisters. With politics I get the impression that it's all about what's
good for the party and not necessarily what's good for the country.
-Ricardo
Montalbán
Politics is very much like taxes- everybody is against them, or
everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him.
-Fiorello
LaGuardia
Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
-Mao
Tse-tung
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom.
-Jim
Hightower
Politics makes estranged bedfellows.
-Goodman Ace
Politics makes me uptight; I have so little control over it. It's like
forever being in high school with rah-rah idiots in charge.
-Rudy
Rucker
Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the
distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a
state.
-Max Weber
Politics ruins the character.
-Otto von Bismarck
Politics should be limited in scope to war, protection of property, and
the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class.
-P.J.
O'Rourke
Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation
of the individual through the education of his passions.
-George
F. Will
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the
goddamned people.
-Richard M. Nixon
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organization of hatreds.
-Henry Adams
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned
with right or left instead of right or wrong.
-Richard Armour
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
-Ambrose
Bierce
Politics: a Trojan horse race.
-Stanislaw J. Lec
Politics: the art of keeping as many balls as possible up in the air at
one time- while protecting your own.
-Sam Attlesey
Politics: where fat, bald, disagreeable men, unable to be candidates
themselves, teach a president how to act on a public stage.
-Jimmy
Breslin
Practical politics consists of ignoring facts.
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