P Quotes
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“Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Politics is a war of causes; a joust of principles. Government is too serious a matter to admit of meaningless courtesies.”
Source: The papers of Woodrow Wilson
“Politics is a waste of time.”
“Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without undue violence...politics is not just a necessary evil; it is a realistic good.”
“Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.”
Source: Spirits in the street
“Politics is about a lot more than winning and losing. I think politics at its best is about compromise, shades of grey and about issues.”
“Politics is about ethics and morality, openly or not openly.”
“Politics is about listening and it's about leading.”
“Politics is about moving forward, looking forward.”
“Politics is about power. It is about the power of the state. It is about the power of the state as applied to individuals, the society in which they live and the economy in which they work. Most critically, our responsibility in this parliament is how that power is used: whether it is used for the benefit of the few or the many.”
Source: Not for the Faint-hearted: A Personal Reflection on Life, Politics and Purpose 1957-2007
“Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.”
“Politics is about realities, not logic.”
“Politics is about the control of a limited number of resources by a limited number of people who think that number is too many”
“Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.”
“Politics is about who wins and loses. The rest is of marginal interest.”
“Politics is about winning. If you don't win, you don't get to put your principles into practice. Therefore, find a way to win, or sit the battle out.”
“Politics is action and all action is but a flaw in the perfection of inaction, which is peace, just as all being is but a flaw in the perfection of nonbeing. Which is God. For if God is perfection and the only perfection is in nonbeing, then God is nonbeing. Then God is nothing. Nothing can give no basis for the criticism of Thing in its thingness. Then where do you get anything to say? Then where do you get off?”
Source: All the King's Men
“Politics is activity in relation to power”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“Politics is all about getting and keeping power, and in politics, the professionals in the business soon learn that the only way to get and keep power is to force people to talk to them. A full-time legislature thinks of more and more things to regulate and discuss.”
“Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.”
Source: The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill
“Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.”
“Politics is an art and not a science, and what is required for its mastery is not the rationality of the engineer but the wisdom and the moral strength of the statesman.”
Source: Scientific Man Versus Power Politics
“Politics is an endless, borderless war against individual liberty.”
Source: The Pith of Life: Aphorisms in Honor of Liberty
“Politics is an obsolete way of doing things. Although it was good a hundred years ago, it has no place in today's high tech society.”
“Politics is applied anywhere, even in heaven.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Politics is applied biology.”
“Politics is based on social identity, and so, again, there is going to be differences between rural and urban and between left and right.”
“Politics is born from different ideologies and economics shapes our political views.”
Source: Destiny of Liberty
“Politics is but the common pulse-beat, of which revolution is the fever-spasm.”
Source: Speeches, Lectures, and Letters
“Politics is changing and as the demographics of different constituencies change so we need to be awake to the possibility of making gains where we have not traditionally done so.”
“Politics is chiefly a function of culture, at the heart of culture is morality, and at the heart of morality is religion.”
“Politics is civilized when people are civilized.”
Source: Mucize Insan: When The World is Family
“Politics is clearly a not so happening topic in our young blood. I could clearly see many students yawning. Some might have been discussing the new Shakira video amongst themselves, the one shown on MTV these days. Bloody donkeys, if it was a porno movie featuring an interracial orgy, their eyes might have ogled out and ears might have become sensitive to the oohs and aahs but not for causes of the nation. Hrmpf …youth power indeed!”
“Politics is clueless; I can claim -"I am a politician" only because I am not.”
“Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.”
“Politics is compromise.”
“Politics is concerned with herds rather than with individuals, and the passions which are important in politics are, therefore, those in which the various members of a given herd can feel alike.”
Source: Human Society in Ethics and Politics
“Politics is corrupting the American judicial system in much the same way the judicial system was corrupted in Nazi Germany.”
“Politics is cyclical.”
“Politics is democracy's way of handling public business. We won't get the type of country in the kind of world we want unless people take part in the public's business.”
“Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did.”
“Politics is different than business.”
“Politics is different, because the mission is always to get the necessary votes. A good politician goes through everything in terms of mission and vision, and resourcing, but at the end of the day politicians have to make compromises in order to achieve consensus.”
“POLITICS is DIRTY because of the DIRTY POLITICS by the PEOPLE, MURUGA PERUMAL”
“Politics is downstream from culture.”
“Politics is everywhere. It's in your shirt, it's in your pants. It's everywhere.”
“Politics is everywhere.. it is in your shirt.. in your pants.. everywhere.”
“Politics is falling off of a cliff without a parachute while claiming that the first isn’t happening and the second is unnecessary. And as soon as they hit the ground, they're telling the paramedics the same thing.”
“Politics is far more complicated than physics.”
“Politics is for people who are too ugly to get into showbusiness.”