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“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.”
Thomas Jefferson
“In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.”
Franklin Roosevelt
“In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.”
Clare Boothe Luce
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”
Abraham Lincoln
“I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.”
Abraham Lincoln
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.”
Aristotle
“Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore.”
Stendhal
“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”
Honore de Balzac
“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own.”
Aldous Huxley
“I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.”
Lord Byron
“It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.”
Robert Redford
“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
“In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.”
Winston Churchill
“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
“Politics is 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 is not a game. It is an earnest business.”
Winston Churchill
“Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.”
Winston Churchill
“If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign.”
George Washington Bush
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in
the politics of personal destruction.”
Hillary Clinton
“I was in civil society long before I was ever in politics or my husband was ever even elected president.”
Hillary Clinton
“In every country today, there is politics. It may be authoritarian politics, but there is politics.”
Hillary Clinton
“The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.”
Hillary Clinton
“I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.”
Thomas Stearns Eliot
“I haven't been very active in politics.”
Clint Eastwood
“Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“We've switched from a culture that was interested in manufacturing, economics, politics - trying to play a serious part in the world - to a culture that's really entertainment-based.”
Stephen King
“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
