Quotes about Politics

Republicans are completely befuddled by Obama's 'star power' and don't seem to have a clear or effective strategy to compete.

Deceit is a tool of statecraft, " Irulan agreed."There are limits to power, as those who put their hopes in a constitution always discover, " Paul said.

Politics, after all, is largely about power. And power goes to the core of our issues of control and narcissism and need to be right and tendency to divide the human race into 'us' vs. 'them.'

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted.

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

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

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

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule to never criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home

I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire.

One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.

The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble.