Politics

The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.

—Virgil Thomson

To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.

—Robert Copeland

This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim.

—James Reston

Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies.

—Dalton Camp

That's the trouble with a politician's life-somebody is always interrupting it with an election.

—Will Rogers

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

—Larry Hardiman

The contempt for law and the contempt for the human consequence of lawbreaking go from the bottom to the top of American society.

—Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

—Margaret Mead

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

—George Bernard Shaw

There is hardly a political question in the United States which doesn't sooner or later turn into a judicial one.

—Alexis de Tocqueville

Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.

—Ambrose Bierce

Man is by nature a political animal.

—Aristotle

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

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