Ultimately politics in a democracy reflects values much more than it shapes them.
Politics is not a good location or a vocation for anyone lazy, thin-skinned or lacking a sense of humour.
A question which can be answered without prejudice to the government is not a fit question to ask.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Politics, and the fate of mankind, are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness.
If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.
There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.
Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.
Damn your principles! Stick to your party!
Politics is a field where action is one long second best and where the choice constantly lies between two blunders.
Politics is the science of how who gets what, when and why.
Politics is but the common pulse beat.
Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.
In politics a week is a very long time.
The more you read about politics, the more you got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
In academic life you seek to state absolute truths; in politics you seek to accommodate truth to the facts around you.
Politics. The diplomatic name for the law of the jungle.
There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for then we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
