Office Politics Quotes

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.

Winston Churchill

Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.

Mohandas Gandhi

Man is by nature a political animal.

Aristotle

Politics is the art of the possible.

Otto Von Bismarck

Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

Mark B. Cohen

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinger

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Henry Adams

When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property.

THOMAS JEFFERSON

There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money ... and I can't remember what the other one is.

F. PAUL WILSON

Politics ... regarded as the study and pursuit of the true, enduring good of a community, as the application of great and unchangeable principles to public affairs, is a noble sphere of thought and action; but politics, in its common sense, or considered as the invention of temporary shifts, as the playing of a subtle game, as the tactics of party for gaining power and the spoils of office, and for elevating one set of men above another, is a paltry and debasing concern.

WILLIAM E. CHANNING

Politics is the food of sense exposed to the hunger of folly.

FULKE GREVILLE

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times.

Winston Churchill

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev

Politics have no relation to morals.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.

Winston Churchill

Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.