A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
– Fawn M. Brodie
A week is a long time in politics.
– Harold Wilson
About the rhinoceros Here is an animal with a hide two feet think and no apparent interest in politics. What a waste.
– Randolph Silliman Bourne
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
– James Barrett Scotty Reston
All politics must cease then we may find world peace, no political leader will bring peace to the world.
– Lot Chakonza
American leaders created a system that allowed a free distribution of wealth and power. People leave their economic class and become richer regardless of their ethnic or national background. Therefore, despite having more diverse people in our society than any other nation, we have more stable national politics. If our elites try to limit the openness of the socioeconomic system, the system will be corrected in any number of forms including civic unrest. When Bush's administration invaded Iraq and bailed out Wall Street, the people brought in Obama. When Obama bailed out Wall Street again and considered raising the tax on the people, the system brought the Tea Party into power and the ruling party lost control of the Congress. People expressed their anger via peaceful elections.
– Med Jones
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
Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
– Peggy Noonan
Blood is thicker than water, but politics are thicker than blood.
– Frank Herbert, Dune
Crime does not pay ... as well as politics.
– Alfred E. Newman
Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is You can't beat Somebody with Nobody.
– William Safire
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
– Wendell Phillips
Emotion is a rotten base for politics.
– Dick Francis
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
– George Orwell
From 4 to 6 percent of the presidential office is not in administration but in morals, politics, and spiritual leadership . He has to guide a people in the greatest adventure ever undertaken on the planet.
– William Allen White
I don’t think Israel’s becoming more religious, I think its politics is becoming more religious. There’s a difference.
– Yair Lapid
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
– Charles De Gaulle
I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
– Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957-1963)
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
– Harold MacMillan
I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.
– John Adams
I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.
– Lyndon B. Johnson
I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.
– Newt Gingrich
I wish that all Americans would realize that American politics is world politics.
– Theodore Roosevelt
If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
– John le Carre
In politics I am growing indifferent -- I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.
– Francois Arouet
