I think that all good right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. Im certainly not and Im sick and tired of being told that I am.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Sooner Id try to change history than turn political than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didnt already feel like doing.
SORCERY n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was however deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Perhaps myself the first at some expense of popularity to unfold the true character of Jefferson it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism that he is too much in earnest in his democracy that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration that he is crafty & persevering in his objects that he is not scrupulous about the means of success nor very mindful of truth and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.
Sir I think all Christians whether Papists or Protestants agree in the essential articles and that their differences are trivial and rather political than religious.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isnt in flames that there are people in the country besides politicians entertainers and criminals.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.
The military dont start wars. Politicians start wars.
Politics as a practice whatever its professions has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics is not the art of the posssible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
Politics have no relation to morals.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble finding it everywhere diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
I think that all good right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. Im certainly not and Im sick and tired of being told that I am.
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it.
When youve spent half your political life dealing with humdrum issues like the environment… its exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
The trouble with this country is that there are too many politicians who believe with a conviction based on experience that you can fool all of the people all of the time.
Practical politics consists of ignoring facts.
… Political society exists for the sake of noble actions and not of mere companionship.
Sooner Id try to change history than turn political than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didnt already feel like doing.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble finding it whether it exists or not diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedy.
SORCERY n. The ancient prototype and forerunner of political influence. It was however deemed less respectable and sometimes was punished by torture and death.
Politics is not an exact science … but an art.
A politician thinks of the next election a statesman of the next generation.
Public life is regarded as the crown of a career and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Politicians should read science fiction not westerns and detective stories.
In politics it is necessary either to betray ones country of the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.
Now I know what a statesman is; hes a dead politician. We need more statesmen.
When you are in any contestyou should work as if there wereto the very last minutea chance to lose it. This is battleThis is politicsThis is anything.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
The best politics is right action.
Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politicians car.
Perhaps myself the first at some expense of popularity to unfold the true character of Jefferson it is too late for me to become his apologist. Nor can I have any disposition to do it. I admit that his politics are tinctured with fanaticism that he is too much in earnest in his democracy that he has been a mischievous enemy to the principle measures of our past administration that he is crafty & persevering in his objects that he is not scrupulous about the means of success nor very mindful of truth and that he is a contemptible hypocrite.
If there?s anything a public servant hates to do it?s something for the public.
Sir I think all Christians whether Papists or Protestants agree in the essential articles and that their differences are trivial and rather political than religious.
Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.
It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isnt in flames that there are people in the country besides politicians entertainers and criminals.
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city it might be better to change the locks.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.
A party of order or stability and a party of progress or reform are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
I have sacrificed everything in my life that I consider precious in order to advance the political career of my husband.
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Politics are a lousy way for a free man to get things done. Politics are like Gods infinite mercy a last resort.’08-02-2010
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service.
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.