One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
Donald Trump

Politics should share one purpose with religion: the steady emancipation of the individual through the education of his passions.
George Will

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke

Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
Edmund Burke

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H. G. Wells

I played by the rules of politics as I found them.
Richard M. Nixon

Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.
Richard M. Nixon

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.
Richard M. Nixon

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R. Buckminster Fuller

By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
R. Buckminster Fuller

War is the ultimate tool of politics.
R. Buckminster Fuller

I have no consistency, except in politics; and that probably arises from my indifference to the subject altogether.
Lord Byron

To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.
Honore de Balzac

There are few things more amusing in the world of politics than watching moderate Republicans charging to the right in pursuit of greater glory.
Mario Cuomo

You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski

There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory.
John Kenneth Galbraith