Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. John Kenneth Galbraith
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. John Kenneth Galbraith
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. H. G. Wells
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. Stendhal
A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. Ani DiFranco
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. Jonathan Swift
Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people. Richard M. Nixon
The advantage of the internet is that it has taken away the charade of politics. China has heard of democracy and people know about certain concepts they wouldn't have previously. Marilyn Manson
I played by the rules of politics as I found them. Richard M. Nixon
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. Alan Clark
It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. John Hughes
I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business. Richard M. Nixon
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. Lyndon B. Johnson
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. Lyndon B. Johnson
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. Charles Caleb Colton
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. Woodrow Wilson
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. Richard M. Nixon
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. Lyndon B. Johnson