Nothing Is So Admirable In Politics As A Short Memory.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith

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 Hoove

I Have Come To The Conclusion That Politics Are Too Serious A Matter To Be Left To The Politicians.
~ Charles De Gaulle

All Politics Are Based On The Indifference Of The Majority.
~ James Barrett Scotty Reston

Objective Journalism Is One Of The Main Reasons American Politics Has Been Allowed To Be So Corrupt For So Long.
~ Hunter S. Thompson

I Must Study Politics And War That My Sons May Have Liberty To Study Mathematics And Philosophy. My Sons Ought To Study Mathematics And Philosophy, Geography, Natural History, Naval Architecture, Navigation, Commerce, And Agriculture, In Order To Give Their Children A Right To Study Painting, Poetry, Music, Architecture, Statuary, Tapestry, And Porcelain.
~ John Adams

University Politics Are Vicious Precisely Because The Stakes Are So Small.
~ Henry Kissinge

Practical Politics Consists In Ignoring Facts.
~ Henry Adams

The Bedfellows Politics Made Are Never Strange. It Only Seems That Way To Those Who Have Not Watched The Courtship.
~ Marcel Archard

The Teaching Of Politics Is That The Government, Which Was Set For Protection And Comfort Of All Good Citizens, Becomes The Principal Obstruction And Nuisance With Which We Have To Contend? The Cheat And Bully And Malefactor We Meet Everywhere Is The Government.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journal, 1860

Blood Is Thicker Than Water, But Politics Are Thicker Than Blood.
~ Frank Herbert, Dune

Sometimes In Politics One Must Duel With Skunks, But No One Should Be Fool Enough To Allow The Skunks To Choose The Weapons.
~ Lester R Bittel