Politics Quotes

"Politics is the art of negotiating between competing human needs."

"Politics is the art of compromise and understanding."

"Politics shapes our world."

"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse."

"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer."

"I think all those people should be shot."

"The two greatest evils in society are organized religion and organized crime."

"I never vote. I believe it only encourages them."

"I have been a rebel, but not for long."

"I respect the policeman's job, but I don't respect many policemen."

"A writer who doesn't question authority is a writer who has lost his purpose."

"Politics is the art of determining whose stories get told and whose are forgotten."

"Politics without principles is corruption."

"Politics is the art of the possible, not the desirable."

"Democracy requires not just participation but moral imagination and civic virtue."

"The poet and the politician both deal in the currency of language; one is honest about it."

"A nation's future depends on whether it can honestly examine its past."

"Politics is the art of making the unacceptable seem inevitable."

"The worst crime against working people is a government that fails to provide them with full employment."

"Democracy is the theory that common people know what they want and deserve to get it."

"In the old days, men made the laws. Now laws make men."

"The Handmaid's Tale is not a prediction. It's a look at where we are now."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics is show business for ugly people."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"Politics is the art of making the possible necessary."

"Politics should serve the people; when it doesn't, it must be challenged."

"Politics is the art of making people believe they have a choice."

"Politics is compromise pretending to be principle."