When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were- to the very last minute- a chance to lose it. This is battle, This is politics, This is anything.
Politics Quotes
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. Men in power have no opinions, but may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose.
If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else.
It is hard enough to understand the politics of one’s own country; it is almost impossible to understand those of foreign countries.
High office is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit, reptiles and eagles.
Vain hope to make men happy by politics!
Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
Politicians appropriate whatever part of the history they want to use, and invoke it.
No publishing formula has been more efficient at putting money down a rat hole than has that of the political magazine. The constellation of magazines that try to own Beltway consciousness – The New Republic, The Weekly Standard, The Nation, The Washington Monthly, National Review and The American Prospect – may differ on points of […]
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman of the next generation. A politician looks for the success of his party; a statesman for that of his country. The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.
