Politics Quotes: Wisdom & Insights from the World of Politics (Page 3)

"Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

"What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies"

Groucho Marx, Comedian

"You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you"

Samuel Johnson, Author

"In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate"

Charles de Gaulle, Leader

"Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"I played by the rules of politics as I found them"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy"

P. J. O'Rourke, Journalist

"Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion"

Richard M. Nixon, President

"Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole"

John F. Kennedy, President

"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"

John F. Kennedy, President

"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it"

Charles Caleb Colton, Writer

"Politics have no relation to morals"

Niccolo Machiavelli, Writer

"War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules"

Ross Perot, Businessman

"One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph"

Margaret Thatcher, Leader

"There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table"

H.G. Wells, Author

"If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"

George Orwell, Author

"Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated"

Will Rogers, Actor

"From politics, it was an easy step to silence"

Jane Austen, Writer

"There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail"

Will Rogers, Actor

"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics"

Will Rogers, Actor

"Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business"

Malcolm Forbes, Publisher

"The modern form of things had begun to appeal to me, also (as material for satire) politics, and the lives of the great and little, high up in the social scale"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"I became active in politics because I saw the possibility, if we all sat back and did nothing, of a world in which there would no longer be any stages for actors to act on"

Helen Gahagan, Actress

"Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions"

George Will, Journalist

"All tools have intrinsic politics and technology is the tool of now"

Godfrey Reggio, Director

"Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

"Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"Practical politics consists in ignoring facts"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Politics are a very unsatisfactory game"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

"I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning"

Adlai E. Stevenson, Politician

"In politics the choice is constantly between two evils"

John Morley, Statesman

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