Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
Ambrose Bierce

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.
Ambrose Bierce

Revolution, n. In politics, an abrupt change in the form of misgovernment.
Ambrose Bierce

Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed.
Mao Tse-Tung

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
Frank Zappa

Politics are not the task of a Christian.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
Thomas Sowell

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Clinton

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

What is more comforting to the terrorists around the world: the failure to pass the 9/11 legislation because we lacked 'a majority of the majority,' or putting aside partisan politics to enact tough new legislation with America's security foremost in mind?
Rahm Emanuel

Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be.
Marshall McLuhan

War is not the continuation of politics with different means, it is the greatest mass-crime perpetrated on the community of man.
Alfred Adler

Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
Ralph Nader

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
Emma Goldman

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
Emma Goldman

When we are sick, we want an uncommon doctor; when we have a construction job to do, we want an uncommon engineer, and when we are at war, we want an uncommon general. It is only when we get into politics that we are satisfied with the common man.
Herbert Hoover

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
Barry Goldwater

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.
Dean Koontz

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