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Objective journalism is one of the main reasons American politics has been allowed to be so corrupt for so long.
~ Hunter S. Thompson The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~ H. L. Mencken In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
~ Henry Adams I seldom think of politics more than 18 hours a day.
~ Lyndon B. Johnson The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~ Henry Louis Mencken
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
~ Fawn M. Brodie No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
~ Jacob Chanowski
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
~ Albert Einstein It is a curious fact that when we get sick we want an uncommon doctor... When we get into a war, we dreadfully want an uncommon admiral and an uncommon general. Only when we get into politics are we content with the common man.
~ Herbert Clark Hoover One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
~ Plato The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm and hence clamorous to be led to safety by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
~ H.L. Mencken
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