Political Floor

There is no gambling like politics. - Benjamin Disraeli

Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle

Politics is the art of the possible. - Otto von Bismarck

In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams

From politics, it was an easy step to silence. - Jane Austen

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts. - Henry Brooks Adams

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business. - Winston Churchill

If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison

All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. - Zhou Enlai

Poetry is about the grief. Politics is about the grievance. - Robert Frost

Politics is for the present, but an equation is for eternity. - Albert Einstein

Politics is too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles de Gaulle

Diplomacy is to do and say the nastiest thing in the nicest way. - Isaac Goldberg

An honest politician is one who when he's bought stays bought. - Simon Cameron

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. - Reinhold Niebuhr

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program. - Bob Wells

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. - Edith Sitwell

Ultimatum: In diplomacy, a last demand before resorting to concessions - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Zedong

Every politician should have been born an orphan and remain a bachelor. - Lady Bird Johnson

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure. - Bertrand Russell

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. - John Kenneth Galbraith

Government can't give us anything without depriving us of something else. - Henry Hazlitt

American Politics: A form of socialism for the rich, including the politicians. - Gregory Nunn

A good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken

Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated. - Will Rogers

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. - Doug Larson

So, if we lie to the government, it's a felony.
But if they lie to us, it's politics. - Bill Murray

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. - Daniel P Moynihan

Why pay money to have your family tree traced; go into politics and your opponents will do it for you. - Unknown

When governments become large, voters cannot exercise close oversight, otherwise known as political power. - Maggie Gallagher

At present, our country needs women's idealism and determination, perhaps more in politics than anywhere else. - Shirley Chisholm

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless. - Milton Friedman

I have certain rules I live by. My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me. Nothing. Zero. - George Carlin

Politics is the only business where doing nothing other than making the other guy look bad is an acceptable outcome. - Mark Warner

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promise of those? - Gilbert Highet

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Groucho Marx

The workers' and peasants' government proposes to all warring peoples... negotiations leading to a just, democratic peace. - Lenin

A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life. - John Stuart Mill

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy. - Barack Obama