I Wish That All Americans Would Realize That American Politics Is World Politics.
~ Theodore Roosevelt

No Science Is Immune To The Infection Of Politics And The Corruption Of Power.
~ Jacob Chanowski

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

One Of The Penalties For Refusing To Participate In Politics Is That You End Up Being Governed By Your Inferiors.
~ Plato

To Bemoan The Messiness Of Politics Is Not Just A Folly It Betrays A Dangerous Impatience With Basic Realities. It Is Like Becoming Disturbed That People Do Not Fall In Love Sensibly -- And So Deciding To Computerize The Problem.
~ Theodore Roszak

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

War Is The Continuation Of Politics By Other Means.
~ General Karl Von Clausewitz, Book: "On War"

There Are Seven Sins In The World: Wealth Without Work, Pleasure Without Conscience, Knowledge Without Character, Commerce Without Morality, Science Without Humanity, Worship Without Sacrifice And Politics Without Principle.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

I Have Never Found In A Long Experience Of Politics That Criticism Is Ever Inhibited By Ignorance.
~ Harold Macmillan, British prime minister (1957-1963)

War Is A Continuation Of Politics By Other Means.
~ Carl Von Clausewitz, quoted by Gene Hackman in "Crimson Tide"

What Is Politics But Persuading The Public To Vote For This And Support That And Endure These For The Promise Of Those.
~ Gilbert Highet

Beware The Politically Obsessed. They Are Often Bright And Interesting, But They Have Something Missing In Their Natures There Is A Hole, An Empty Place, And They Use Politics To Fill It Up. It Leaves Them Somehow Misshapen.
~ Peggy Noonan