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~ Generally speaking, the best people nowadays go into journalism, the second best into business, the rubbish into politics and the shits into law
~ ~ Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perpetually rejuvenated illusions. ~ ~ Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~ ~ Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. ~ ~ Politics ain't worrying this country one-tenth as much as where to find a parking space ~ ~ If you're sick and tired of the politics of cynicism and polls and principles, come and join this campaign. ~ ~ The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion ~ ~ Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. ~ ~ In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ~ ~ Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. ~ ~ There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail. ~ ~ Politics and war are remarkably similar situations. ~ ~ History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause. ~ ~ In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate. ~ ~ Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other. ~ ~ The liberation war is a blood shedding revolutionary method of politics. ~ ~ Three months is a lifetime in politics ~ ~ In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. ~ ~ We live in a world in which politics has replaced philosophy ~ ~ If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. ~ ~ The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible ~ ~ Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics ~ ~ Canadian politics in British Columbia is an adventure, on the Prairies a cause, in Ontario a business, in Quebec a religion, in the Maritimes a disease. ~ ~ Liberalism is Rationalism in politics. ~ ~ Because liberalism typically doesn't sell in American presidential politics, liberal candidates tend to run as culturally conservative centrists. ~ ~ Politics is the art of putting people under obligation to you. ~ ~ I've always said that in politics, your enemies can't hurt you, but your friends will kill you. ~ ~ In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction ~ ~ Revolution: in politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment. ~ ~ As we watch the sun go down, evening after evening, through the smog across the poisoned watchers of our native earth, we must ask ourselves seriously whether we really wish some future universal historian on another planet to say about us: "With all their genius and with all their skill, they ran out of foresight and air and food and water and ideas," or, "They went on playing politics until their world collapsed around them." ~ |
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