Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston Churchill – Politics, Prediction
Any 20 year-old who isn’t a liberal doesn’t have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn’t a conservative doesn’t have a brain.
Winston Churchill – Politics, Ideology
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
John Updike – Government, Politics
The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate.
Aristotle – Politics
Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.
Hannah Arendt – Speech, Politics
Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt – Love
The manners of women are the surest criterion by which to determine whether a republican government is practicable in a nation or not.
John Quincy Adams – Gender, Politics
America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
John Quincy Adams – America, Politics
Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
Douglas Adams – President, Politics
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
Henry Brooks Adams – Politics
One crucial thing you need to understand about political journalists is that with some honorable exceptions, they don’t know or care about actual policy.
Paul Krugman – Political Journalists
We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.
salman Rushdie – Politics
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don’t understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
Gabriel García Marquez – american politics
Finality is not the language of politics.
Benjamin Disraeli – Language, Politics
No Government can be long secure wihtout a formidable opposition.
