“Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.”
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“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.”
“A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.”
“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”
“I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians.”
“The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.”
“The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.”
“Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think.”
“There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.”
“The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.”
“Politics is applesauce.”
“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.”
“We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.”
“There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable for in politics there is no honour.”
“What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!”
“When you are in any contest, you should work as if there were - to the very last minute - a chance to lose it. This is battle, this is politics, this is anything.”
“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.”
“Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.”
“Finality is not the language of politics.”
“Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.”
“There is no gambling like politics.”
“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
“You can't be in politics unless you can walk in a room and know in a minute who's for you and who's against you.”
“I played by the rules of politics as I found them.”