Dreams Quote by Jon Meacham

“In politics, where everything romantic and sentimental is folly, the converse is usually considered true, and every brutality is thought sound sense”

— William Bolitho

“Politics is an all-consuming mistress that can destroy your family life, warp your personality, and wreck your health.”

— Herman E. Talmadge

“[Politics] is always a means of conquering others and exercising power over them.”

— Jacques Ellul

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria…

— Louise Bogan

“For politics is not just about things necessary and eternal, nor is it just a matter of good judgment in a given situation. It…

— Daniel Gross

“We grow justly weary of our politics. But we must remember this: Politics - in all its grubby, grasping, corrupt, contemptible manifestations - is…

— Charles Krauthammer

Politics is the soil in which the nettle of poisonous enmity, evil suspicions, shameless lies, slander, morbid ambitions, and disrespect for the individual grows…

— Maxim Gorky

“Politics is the only field of human endeavor where the more experience you have, the worse you get.”

— Kinky Friedman

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

— William Hurrell Mallock

“It was easy to speak theoretically and idealistically about politics when one is seeking power. The demands of exercising it once it is won,…

— Jon Meacham

“Politics: the art of using euphemisms, lies, emotionalism and fear-mongering to dupe average people into accepting--or even demanding--their own enslavement.”

— Larken Rose

Politics is a life sentence. It's an obsessive, all-demanding, utterly fascinating, totally committing profession - stimulating, satisfying, stretching.

— Michael Heseltine