“Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.”
Others on Politics
Otto von Bismarck
9 quotes“Political judgment is the ability to hear the distant hoofbeats of the horse of history.”
Charles de Gaulle
6 quotes“In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.”
H. L. Mencken
6 quotes“A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.”
Ronald Reagan
6 quotes“Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.”
Tocqueville
5 quotes“The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.”
Margaret Thatcher
4 quotes“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money.”
George Orwell
4 quotes“Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.”
Henry Adams
4 quotes“Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.”
FDR
3 quotes“Presidents are selected, not elected.”
Buckminster Fuller
2 quotes“War is the ultimate tool of politics.”
Will Durant
2 quotes“The state is the soul of man enlarged under the microscope of history.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
2 quotes“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”