Politics Quotes

"Politics is the art of the possible."

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

"I've never heard of an intellectual yet who hasn't got a political side."

"Politics is a very interesting game, but I have not the strength of mind for it."

"Revolution is something they talk about in drawing rooms."

"I've always been a republican in the best sense of the word."

"Political systems are mirrors of our collective consciousness."

"Politics divides us; humanity unites us."

"We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So perhaps we should try to use it."

"Oppression is what happens when you don't vote."

"Politics is ultimately about power and how it is distributed among people; acknowledge this clearly."

"The Handmaid's Tale is not prediction. It's an extrapolation of current trends."

"Politics is the art of the possible"

"Politics is the art of negotiating between competing visions of the good."

"There is no such thing as not voting: you either vote by voting, or you vote by staying home and tacitly doubling the value of the vote of someone who does."

"Most of American 'freedom' consists of the freedom to buy things."

"In the end, all politics is local—it is about survival and power."

"I think the truly political thing is to have no message at all."

"The American dream is a fiction written by the powerful."

"America is a country of contradictions."

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

"The political structure is always a reflection of what men truly believe about themselves."

"Advertising has invented the idea that you're incomplete without products."

"Modern advertising sells the idea that you're not enough."

"The machinery of society runs on making you feel inadequate."

"Negroes aren't allowed certain things in some places and you are wondering why."

"America is the country where you can die and nobody notices."

"Democracy is a system where people are fooled at regular intervals."

"Politics is the art of the possible."

"America is a place where nothing is sacred."