Quotes with politics

  • I engage in the use of game theory. Game theory is a branch of mathematics, and that means, sorry, that even in the study of politics, math has come into the picture. We can no longer pretend that we just speculate about politics; we need to look at this in a rigorous way.
  • Politics are for foreigners with their endless wrongs and paltry rights. Politics are a lousy way to get things done. Politics are, like God's infinite mercy, a last resort.
  • You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
  • In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four.
  • Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.
  • Is there nothing the prodigiously talented Ann Patchett can't do? She's channeled the world of opera, Boston politics, magic, unwed motherhood, and race relations, creating scenarios so indelible, you swear they are right outside your door.
  • The more you read and observe about this politics thing, the more you've got to admit that each party's worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
  • If you are to reach masses of people in this world, you must do it by a sign language. Whether your vehicle be commerce, literature, or politics, you can do nothing but raise signals, and make motions to the people.
  • Politics is too often regarded as a poor relation, inherently dependent and subsidiary; it is rarely praised as something with a life and character of its own.
  • If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
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  • Henry Brooks Adams Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
    Henry Brooks Adams
    American historian (1838 - 1918)
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  • David Mamet A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators may divert or anger, but it cannot enlighten.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Will Rogers I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Edmund Burke Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Hannah Arendt No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Max Weber Only he has the calling for politics who is sure that he will not crumble when the world from his point of view is too stupid or base for what he wants to offer. Only he who in the face of all this can say ''In spite of all!'' has the calling for politics.
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Ambrose Bierce REVOLUTION: In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
    The Devil's Dictionary
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Lyndon B. Johnson Son, in politics you've got to learn that overnight chicken shit can turn to chicken salad.
    Lyndon B. Johnson
    American president (1908 - 1973)
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  • Anita Loos That our popular art forms have become so obsessed with sex has turned the U.S.A into a nation of hobbledehoys; as if grown people don't have more vital concerns, such as taxes, inflation, dirty politics, earning a living, getting an education, or keeping out of jail.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Carroll Quigley ...today everything is commercialized--politics, religion, education, ideology, belief, the armed services....Everything has its price.
    Oscar Iden Lecture Series, Lecture 3: The State of Individuals (1976)
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Cass Sunstein A few weeks ago, I was at the gym, talking to a friend about politics. Overhearing the conversation, a young man - maybe 25 years old - interrupted to say, 'Obama? He hasn't done a single thing!'
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg A lot of people who voted for Barack Obama expected and were led to expect something new in politics: a new tone of political discourse in Washington. And I think - I think they're disappointed, because Barack Obama is not a new kind of politician. In fact, he's an old Chicago politician.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Fawn M. Brodie A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
    Fawn M. Brodie
    American historian and biographer (1915 - 1981)
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  • David Lloyd George A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.
    David Lloyd George
    Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922 (1863 - 1945)
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  • Bernard Crick A politics of vengeance is not politics. Revenge is a recklessness towards the future in a vain attempt to make the present abolish a suffering which is already past.
    In Defence Of Politics Ch. 4, A Defence Of Politics Against Nationalism,
    Bernard Crick
    British political theorist (1929 - 2008)
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  • Robert Byrne A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
    Robert Byrne
    American author (1928 - 2013)
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  • Billy Sunday After all is said that can be said upon the liquor traffic, its influence is degrading upon the individual, the family, politics and business, and upon everything that you touch in this old world.
    As quoted in ""Billy" Sunday, the man and his message: with his own words which have won thousands for Christ" by William Thomas Ellis
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Walt Whitman After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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