Famous Quotes About politics

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean, but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

Today, I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics, and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.