Chicago Politics

All 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