Politics Quotes

Power, governance, and the messy business of organizing human societies.

14518 quotes

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"Politics divides, but shared humanity unites."
Maxwell Klinger
R
"Politics often obscures what's actually right."
Radar O'Reilly
M
"Politics needs more people willing to be different"
Maxwell Klinger
M
"Politics needs compassion as much as policy"
Maxwell Klinger
C
"Politics is the art of making people believe lies with a straight face."
Captain B.J. Hunnicutt
C
"Politics is compromise, and compromise means nobody gets what they want."
Captain B.J. Hunnicutt
R
"Politics should be about serving people."
Radar O'Reilly
M
"Politics is a dirty game, and I refuse to play by the rules."
Maxwell Klinger
M
"Politics and war are the same game with different rules."
Maxwell Klinger
R
"Politics is just people trying to do what they think is right."
Radar O'Reilly
R
"Politics is about compromise and doing the best you can."
Radar O'Reilly
M
"Politics is the art of making enemies out of friends."
Maxwell Klinger
M
"Politics is chess, and we're the pawns."
Maxwell Klinger
C
"Politics is the art of compromise, if you're lucky."
Colonel Sherman Potter
C
"Politics and medicine make strange bedfellows."
Colonel Sherman Potter
F
"Politics should never corrupt military duty."
Frank Burns
F
"Politics and medicine don't mix well."
Frank Burns
C
"Politics can corrupt good men if they're not careful."
Colonel Sherman Potter
C
"In politics, principle should always come before party."
Colonel Sherman Potter
M
"Politics has no place in surgery, but it seems to find its way in anyway."
Margaret Houlihan
M
"Politics have no place in surgery—only the patient matters."
Margaret Houlihan
M
"Politics compromises principles; medicine does not."
Margaret Houlihan
B
"Politics gets in the way of what really matters: taking care of people."
B.J. Hunnicutt
B
"Politics divide us, but humanity should unite us."
B.J. Hunnicutt
M
"I don't listen to gossip; I deal in facts."
Margaret Houlihan
M
"Politics is about compromise, even when you don't want to."
Margaret Houlihan
B
"Politics back home feels irrelevant when you're saving lives here."
B.J. Hunnicutt
B
"Politics should never determine who lives and who dies."
B.J. Hunnicutt
H
"Politics is the art of compromise, and compromise is the art of losing everyone."
Hawkeye Pierce
B
"Politics got us here, but humanity gets us through."
B.J. Hunnicutt