Chicago Politics
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it
Cartoon from the Chicago Tribune (1934)
QuotaBillsAll politics is applesauce. - Will Rogers
Good government is good politics. - Richard J. Daley
Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck
Politics have no relation to morals. - Niccolo Machiavelli
In politics nothing is contemptible. - Benjamin Disraeli
The gun is not out of Irish politics. - Ian Paisley
There is no reason to repeat bad history. - Eleanor Holmes Norton
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams
Difficulty is the excuse history never accepts. - Edward R. Murrow
History doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes. - Will Rogers
Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Winston Churchill
A sweating ovary or a sick prostate explains most history. - Martin H. Fischer
History never looks like history when you are living through it. - John W. Gardner
It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature. - Henry James
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy. - Margaret Thatcher
In life you have to rely on the past, and that's called history. - Donald Trump
Women with pasts interest men. They hope history will repeat itself. - Mae West
History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul. - Lord Acton
All of history is fused with His meaning because history is HIS-story. - Ravi Zacharias
We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it. - John F Kennedy
I was asked to come to Chicago because Chicago is one of our 52 states. - Raquel Welch
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
If the cavemen had known how to laugh, history would have been different. - Oscar Wilde
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power. - Jacob Bronowski
American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn
Politics is for people who have a passion for changing life but lack a passion for living it. - Tom Robbins
I can't understand why I flunked American history. When I was a kid there was so little of it. - George Burns
Good thing we've still got politics in Texas - finest form of free entertainment ever invented. - Molly Ivins
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. - Will Durant
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. - Plato
Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. - Malcolm Muggeridge
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history. - Mahatma Gandhi
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx
We're at a point in history where everyone needs to pay attention to politics. Too much is at stake for us to be apathetic. - Kevin Costner
Our history is an inevitable component of our being. One thing only can release us from the grip of our history. That one thing is forgiveness. - Lewis B Smedes
Being in politics is like being a football coach; you have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. - Malcolm Muggeridge
The simple act of opening a bottle of wine has brought more happiness to the human race than all the collective governments in the history of earth. - Jim Harrison
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. - Bertrand Russell