Politics

"[P]olitics has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
        --Henry Adams

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."
        --Oscar Ameringer

"The good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
        --Aristotle

"Politics is the conduct of public affairs for private advantage."
        --Ambrose Bierce

"Politics is the art of the next best."
        --Otto von Bismark

"Principle over expedience is still the best politics."
        --Robert J. Caldwell

"The problem with political jokes is they get elected."
        --Henry Cate

"Any man under 30 who is not a liberal has no heart, and any man over 30 who is not a conservative has no brains."
        --Winston Churchill

"If Hitler invaded Hell, I'd find something nice to say about the Devil himself."
        --Winston Churchill,responding to criticism about his decision to support Stalin in World War II

"Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
        --Winston Churchill

"Consensus means that lots of people say collectively what nobody believes individually."
        --Abba Eban

"What is morally wrong cannot be politically right."
        --William Gladstone

"Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why."
        --Sidney Hillman

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

"Theology teaches us what ends are desirable and what means are lawful, while politics teaches what means are effective."
        --C. S. Lewis

"Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one stp removed from honest men."
        --Abraham Lincoln

"Politics is the art of seeking trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies."
        --Groucho Marx

"Politics is like coaching a football team. You have to be smart enough to understand the games but not smart enough to lose interest."
        --Eugene McCarthy

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed - and hence clamorous to be led to safety - by menacing with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
        --H. L. Mencken

"In the United States...politics is purged of all menace, all sinister quality, all genuine significance, and stuffed with such gorgeous humors, such inordinate farce that one comes to the end of a campaign with one's ribs loose, and ready for 'King Lear,' or a hanging, or a course of medical journals."
        --Robert Novak

"There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth."
        --P.J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores

"Politics should be limited in scope to war, protection of property, and the occasional precautionary beheading of a member of the ruling class."
        --P.J. O'Rourke

"Politician: From the Greek poly (many) and the French tête"
        --Martin Pitt

"One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors."
        --Plato

"I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise -- which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass."
        --Ronald Reagan

"Course, that's the trouble with politics, it breeds politics! So that makes it pretty hard to stamp out."
        --Will Rogers

"The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office."
        --Will Rogers

"Politicians are just a bunch of local bandits, sent by their local voters to raid the public treasury."
        --Will Rogers

"If you ever injected truth into politics you have no politics."
        --Will Rogers

"Politics isn't worrying this country one tenth as much as parking space."
        --Will Rogers

"Politics has got so expensive that it takes a lot of money to even get beat with nowadays."
        --Will Rogers

"The bedfellows politics makes are never strange. It only seems that way to those who have not watched the courtship."
        --Kirpatrick Sale

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
        --Robert Louis Stevenson

"Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business."
        --Paul Valory