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If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me.

—William Shakespeare

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Great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

—Washington Irving

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The easiest thing of all is to deceive one's self; for what a man wishes he generally believes to be true.

—Demosthenes

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Nothing can so alienate a voter from the political system as backing a winning candidate.

—Otto von Bismarck

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Nothing is easier than self-deceit. For what each man wishes, that he also believes to be true.

—Demosthenes

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Politics has less to do with where you live than where your heart is.

—Mark B. Cohen

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Dreams are wishes your heart makes.

—American Proverb

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Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.

—Margaret Cho

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We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

—Aesop

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Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks.

—John Kenneth Galbraith

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Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

—Henry Cate VII

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When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them.

—Franklin P. Adams

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Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.

—Ernest Benn

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Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

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Man is by nature a political animal.

—Aristotle

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