“It has been well said that a hungry man is more interested in four sandwiches than four freedoms.”
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“Television is democracy at its ugliest.”
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.”
“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.”
“There are still people in my party who believe in consensus politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors... I mean it.”
“Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.”
“I haven't been very active in politics.”
“In politics, as in religion, it is equally absurd to aim at making proselytes by fire and sword. Heresies in either can rarely be cured by persecution.”
“I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.”
“I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.”
“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.”
“There are no morals in politics there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a scoundrel.”
“War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.”
“Only very intelligent people don't wish they were in politics, and I'm dumb enough to want to be in there.”
“Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.”
“Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.”
“In politics shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.”
“Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin.”
“To rely upon conviction, devotion, and other excellent spiritual qualities that is not to be taken seriously in politics.”
“The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime.”
“To those who have exhausted politics, nothing remains but abstract thought.”
“A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.”
“War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.”
“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.”