- “It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”
— Albert Einstein - “Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.”
— Ambrose Bierce - “Man is by nature a political animal.”
— Aristotle - “I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.”
— Charles De Gaulle - “The mistake a lot of politicians make is in forgetting they’ve been appointed and thinking they’ve been anointed.”
— Claude D. Pepper - “Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.”
— Dalton Camp - “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 - “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 - “We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.”
— Frank McKinney Hubbard - “When the political columnists say ‘Every thinking man’ they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to ‘Every intelligent voter’ they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.”
— Franklin P. Adams - “Run for office? No. I’ve slept with too many women, I’ve done too many drugs, and I’ve been to too many parties.”
— George Clooney - “My choice early in life was either to be a piano-player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.”
— Harry S. Truman - “Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.”
— John Kenneth Galbraith - “The word ‘politics’ is derived from the word ‘poly’, meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’, meaning ‘blood sucking parasites’.”
— Larry Hardiman - “Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.”
— Lester B. Pearson - “Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.”
— Mao Tse-Tung - “Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.”
— Mark B. Cohen - “You can lead a man to Congress, but you can’t make him think.”
— Milton Berle - “Politics is the art of the possible.”
— Otto Von Bismarck - “In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.”
— Napoleon Bonaparte - “Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.”
— Paul Valery - “Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don’t understand, such as working for a living.”
— P. J. ORourke - “In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.”
— R. A. Butler - “Politics is largely a matter of heart.”
— R. A. Butler - “Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
— Robert Louis Stevenson - “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 supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
— Ronald Reagan - “A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.”
— Texas Guinan - “The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority.”
— Will Durant - “The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that’s out always looks the best.”
— Will Rogers