When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were- to the very last minute- a chance to lose it. This is battle, This is politics, This is anything.
Politics Quotes
Politics is a deleterious profession, like some poisonous handicrafts. Men in power have no opinions, but may be had cheap for any opinion, for any purpose.
Our only safe rule in politics heretofore, was, always to believe that the worst would be done. Then we were not deceived.
The idea the religion and politics don’t mix was invented by the devil to keep Christians from running their own country.
As long as there are entrenched social and political distinctions between sexes, races, or classes, there will be forms of science whose main function is to rationalize and legitimize these distinctions.
I think I would make a great politician. I’m nice to nearly everybody, and I can talk for long periods of time without actually saying anything. I’m pro-choice, pro get-a-life and pro-death, which means that everyone would have to vote for me at least a third of the time.
Unfortunately, politicians have the Paul Masson theory of government – We will deal with no problems before its time.”
It is more than a crime; it is a political fault.
Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
