All Quotes

Politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live.
‐‐ Maynard Jackson

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 really my thing.
‐‐ John Malkovich

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is - once in a while - a forum for serious debate about political philosophy.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is only worthwhile if you are doing what you believe, regardless of the slings and arrows.
‐‐ David Blunkett

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 pop. Our job as comedians - especially me, as a late-night talk show, which is a broader audience - is to amplify what we think America is thinking.
‐‐ Jimmy Fallon

Politics is really religion. Politics is about sacredness. Politics is about offering a vision that will bind the nation together to pursue greatness.
‐‐ Jonathan Haidt

Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.
‐‐ Kate Millett

Politics is rough and tumble everywhere, and many women recoil from that negative aspect of it - the nastiness, the charges and counter-charges.
‐‐ Melanne Verveer

Politics is show business for ugly people.
‐‐ Paul Begala

Politics is so much about serendipity that we've got to have a bigger pool of women, so that when people drop out of the process, you've got others to turn to.
‐‐ Eleanor Clift

Politics is so personal, vicious and immediate, how are you going to get anything done? Even the local politics where I live have gotten so ugly.
‐‐ Robin Williams

Politics is still the No. 1 sport in town and the scoreboard shows the U.S. attorney's office leading.
‐‐ Bill Kurtis

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.
‐‐ Thomas Jefferson

Politics is terrifying, very masculine, and not particularly encouraging to young blonde women - as a career, that is - and it was only when I was working in parliament that I thought to myself, 'Well, this is a tough industry; can an acting career be any more intimidating?' and I applied to drama school.
‐‐ Emily Berrington

Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
‐‐ Adam Michnik

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.
‐‐ Hunter S. Thompson

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.
‐‐ Paul Valery

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.
‐‐ Adam Michnik

Politics is the art of the next best.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the possible.
‐‐ Otto von Bismarck

Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.
‐‐ Ben Okri

Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or rather the hashish.
‐‐ Oliver St. John

Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
‐‐ Joseph Sobran

Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men.
‐‐ George Jean Nathan

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
‐‐ Ian Mcewan

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
‐‐ Frank Zappa

Politics is the most corrupt profession on Earth, no matter where you are.
‐‐ Charles Dance

Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion.
‐‐ Pope Francis

Politics is the one field you don't age out of.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Politics is the only field in which the more experience you have, the worse you get.
‐‐ Kinky Friedman

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
‐‐ Emma Goldman

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 the womb in which war develops.
‐‐ Carl von Clausewitz

Politics is there the way men and women are there, the way the Atlantic Ocean is there. Sometimes I've written about politics specifically, I mean about politics as it's understood on television and in newspapers.
‐‐ Kenneth Koch

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 Montalban

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
‐‐ Charles de Gaulle

Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.
‐‐ Alexei Navalny

Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
‐‐ Stone Gossard

Politics is very interesting and always leads to conflict.
‐‐ Ridley Scott

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
‐‐ Mao Zedong

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.
‐‐ Michael Ignatieff