3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
3 December 2020 Booker T. Washington At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
3 December 2020 Henry Adams I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.
3 December 2020 Marshall McLuhan Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
3 December 2020 Benjamin Disraeli The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.
3 December 2020 Charles de Gaulle I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
3 December 2020 Bob Riley I ask you: turn a deaf ear to the special interests. Let politics stand down for a while. don’t waste anytime thinking about future elections until we’ve done our jobs here.
3 December 2020 Margaret Thatcher One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.
3 December 2020 Caskie Stinnett A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
3 December 2020 Alveda King African-Americans who might have disagreed with candidate Obama’s left-of-center politics voted for him in 2008 because electing a candidate with brown skin was too historic an opportunity to miss.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Fidel Castro The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.
3 December 2020 Dennis Kucinich You know, I started my career in politics in 1967. I’m not new to this. I did not just fall off the Christmas tree. I understand the world is complex. I know that there are people out there who want to hurt other people.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 David Miliband My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics.
3 December 2020 Laura Bush I mean, the part you don’t like, I mean, that’s the only part. That’s the part no one likes, and that is the criticisms, and the unfair criticisms, I might add, of my husband. But that’s also just a fact of life in politics.
3 December 2020 Charles W. Pickering A healthy democracy requires a decent society it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
3 December 2020 Howard Fineman A purely objective viewpoint does not exist in the cosmos or in politics.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word ‘coal’ is a remarkable and unprecedented event.
3 December 2020 C. Northcote Parkinson In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
3 December 2020 Ron Fournier If acknowledging that racial misgivings and misunderstandings are still a part of politics and life in America, I plead guilty.
3 December 2020 Ian Botham There will be no politics, no ifs and buts if we see something and feel that work needs to be done, we will get people here we can rely on and ensure it is done in the same thorough way as our other projects.
3 December 2020 Prince Most people don’t want to talk about politics and religion. They say, ‘Let’s talk about something else.’
3 December 2020 Jacob Bronowski No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
