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Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
Thomas Jefferson
Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.
In politics people give you what they think you deserve and deny you what they think you want.
Cecil Parkinson
Politics in the United States consists of the struggle between those whose change has been arrested by success or failure, on one side, and those who are still engaged in changing themselves, on the other. Agitators of arrested metamorphosis versus agitators of continued metamorphosis. The former have the advantage of numbers (since most people accept themselves as successes or failures quite early), the latter of vitality and visibility (since self-transformation, though it begins from within, with ideology, religion, drugs, tends to express itself publicly through costume and jargon).
Harold Rosenberg
There are two types of politicians: the ones that are courageous and honest, and the ones that have a steep career.
Gerhard Kocher
The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.
Benjamin Disraeli
Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.
The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.
A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.
When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.
Ernest Hemingway
The heaviest penalty for deciding to engage in politics is to be ruled by someone inferior to yourself.
Plato
What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.
David Lloyd George
I do not deny that there may be other well-founded causes for the hatred which various classes feel toward politicians, but the main one seems to me that politicians are symbols of the fact that every class must take every other class into account.
Jos
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not so much that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie.
Adrienne Rich
Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central powerhouses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces.
Henry Adams, The Education of He
A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles de Gaulle
Politics is a blood sport.
Aneurin Bevan
Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.
Barbara Ehrenreich
