916 quotes found
“Politics is the diversion of trivial men who when they succeed at it become important in the eyes of more trivial men.”
“The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.”
“The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.”
“We're eyeball to eyeball and I think the other fellow just blinked.”
“It was a storm in a tea cup but in politics we sail in paper boats.”
“Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.”
“I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.”
“Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.”
“Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.”
“Poetry was the maiden I loved but politics was the harridan I married.”
“Politics is the science of how who gets what when and why.”
“Politics is the gizzard of society full of gut and gravel.”
“The more you read about politics the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”
“In academic life you seek to state absolute truths in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.”
“Politics is war without bloodshed and war is politics with blood.”
“There is no excitement anywhere in the world short of war to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.”
“In politics a straight line is the shortest distance to disaster.”
“In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.”
“As I learnt very early in my life in Whitehall the acid test of any political question is: What is the alternative?”
“Forgiving is all forgetting is another thing.”
