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

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

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

I think Ralph Nader is the biggest liar in American politics when he said it didn't matter who was president.
James Carville

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

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
Maria Montessori

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.
Ross Perot

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics.
Robert Peel

We mean by "politics" the people's business - the most important business there is.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
Lord Acton

An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
Adlai E. Stevenson

I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
Adlai E. Stevenson

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

No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has determined the very existence of politics, the cause of freedom versus tyranny.
Hannah Arendt

Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
Pat Riley

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

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.
John Hughes

I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment.
Fiona Apple