3 December 2020 Ben Okri Politics is the art of the possible creativity is the art of the impossible.
3 December 2020 Robert Louis Stevenson Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
3 December 2020 Joseph Crowley Some of the FDA’s own scientists have charged that politics, not science, is behind the FDA’s actions.
3 December 2020 Theodore Roosevelt A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.
3 December 2020 Ambrose Bierce Consul – in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
3 December 2020 Barry Goldwater If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
3 December 2020 Dee Dee Myers As women have played an increasingly important role in politics, there is no question that they’ve brought a different perspective, focusing attention on a broader set of issues and building alliances with other women.
3 December 2020 Jeff Goodell Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.
3 December 2020 Daniel Radcliffe I don’t know why that is, but English politics is just so overly white. It’s very much about the class structure.
3 December 2020 Roland Joffe When you look at our world, the truth is that we’re all under the influence of politics.
3 December 2020 Eric Holder I think that what I’m doing is right. And election-year politics, which intensifies everything, is not going to drive me off that course.
3 December 2020 Fred Frith I think things changed as a result of a certain perception of our politics. When we went through our zealous, self-righteous period it didn’t exactly win us any friends.
3 December 2020 James Hansen Money has too big an influence on our politics in Washington and somehow we need to do something about that.
3 December 2020 P. J. O'Rourke The good news is that, according to the Obama administration, the rich will pay for everything. The bad news is that, according to the Obama administration, you’re rich.
3 December 2020 Anna Chlumsky I’m interested in current affairs and social policy as a whole, but I don’t watch politics for sport.
3 December 2020 Aldous Huxley 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.
3 December 2020 Nate Silver In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
3 December 2020 A. N. Wilson I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
3 December 2020 John le Carre If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.
3 December 2020 Imelda Marcos When they see me holding fish, they can see that I am comfortable with kings as well as with paupers.
3 December 2020 John Sununu The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a ‘loophole’ or a tax incentive becomes a ‘subsidy for special interests’ is one of the great mysteries of politics.
3 December 2020 Richard Armour Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
3 December 2020 Todd Gitlin My position is not that John Kerry is either Jesus Christ or the prophet Mohammad. My position is that John Kerry is the possibility of restarting politics.
3 December 2020 Gary Vaynerchuk People who build family businesses are not classically trained. They have to deal with an enormous amount of politics. You think corporate politics are tough? Go work for your dad or your mom.
3 December 2020 Honore de Balzac To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
