Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. —John Kenneth Galbraith More about this quote Tags: politics compromise art possibility disaster Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home. —Winston Churchill More about this quote Tags: politics government criticism home travel Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. —George Orwell More about this quote Tags: politics speech defense Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. —H. L. Mencken More about this quote Tags: politics imagination worry alarm menace Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is how you live your life, not whom you vote for. —Jerry Rubin More about this quote Tags: politics life morality voting Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The most delusional fantasies can be made to masquerade as sanity if you've got the political power to reinforce them. —Penny Skillman More about this quote Tags: politics power fantasy Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese? —Charles De Gaulle More about this quote Tags: politics governing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The United States Congress, like a lot of rich people, lives in two houses. —John Green More about this quote Tags: politics USA wealth houses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: politics open-mindedness liberal consideration Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag; wash it. —Norman Thomas More about this quote Tags: politics USA cleaning flags symbolism flag burning Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The poor have been sent to the front lines of a federal-budget deficit-reduction war that few other groups were drafted to fight. —Marian Wright Edelman More about this quote Tags: politics poverty budget Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist. —Dom H. Camara More about this quote Tags: politics poverty food communism Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If we let people see that kind of thing, there would never again be any war. —Pentagon official on why the U.S. military censored graphic footage from the Gulf War More about this quote Tags: war politics peace violence Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: politics thinking conservative Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. —Ronald Reagan More about this quote Tags: politics morality money work Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email