Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald Reagan
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
Albert Einstein
The working of great institutions is mainly the result of a vast mass of routine, petty malice, self interest, carelessness, and sheer mistake. Only a residual fraction is thought.
George Santayana
Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business.
Paul Valery
Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
Ambrose Bierce
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan
Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
Will Rogers
There are no true friends in politics.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Politics is the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.
Barry Goldwater