Able Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the most important skills for political success is the ability to make confident assertions of absurdities or lies.

— Thomas Sowell

A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them.

— H. L. Mencken

All the politics in the world are nothing else but a kind of analysis of the quantity of probability in casual events, and a…

— John Arbuthnot

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

— Catherine the Great

“Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth -…

— Max Weber

“Didn’t somebody once say ‘Politics is the art of the possible’?” “Quite true—which is why only second-rate minds go into it. Genius likes to…

— Arthur C. Clarke

It takes a certain kind of man to be in politics--a small one.

— Croft M. Pentz

When a man has his heart in the right place and good taste, he can not only do well in politics but is even…

— Vaclav Havel

In politics a man must learn to rise above principle.

— American Proverb

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

— John C. Maxwell

An honest man in politics shines more there than he would elsewhere.

— Mark Twain

Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man prevails at…

— H. L. Mencken