I have no consistency, except in politics and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether. – Lord Byron
From politics, it was an easy step to silence. – Jane Austen
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. – Charles de Gaulle
The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world. – Reinhold Niebuhr
There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. – Thomas Huxley
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose. – John Kenneth Galbraith
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which is impossible to ignore. – Stendhal
Politics, as the word is commonly understood, are nothing but corruptions. – Jonathan Swift
Politics are not the task of a Christian. – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I played by the rules of politics as I found them. – Richard M. Nixon
In Pakistan politics is hereditary. – Imran Khan
There are no true friends in politics. We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water. – Alan Clark
What we won when all of our people united must not be lost in suspicion and distrust and selfishness and politics. Accordingly, I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as president. – Lyndon B. Johnson
One lesson you better learn if you want to be in politics is that you never go out on a golf course and beat the President. – Lyndon B. Johnson
In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it. – Charles Caleb Colton
Politics I conceive to be nothing more than the science of the ordered progress of society along the lines of greatest usefulness and convenience to itself. – Woodrow Wilson
Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. – Richard M. Nixon
I seldom think of politics more than eighteen hours a day. – Lyndon B. Johnson
In politics, every day is filled with numerous opportunities for serious error. Enjoy it. – Donald Rumsfeld
War is the ultimate tool of politics. – R. Buckminster Fuller
