Bully Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a…

— Nicholas Lemann

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 a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver,…

— Jeffrey Tucker

Politics was good a hundred years ago. Today, politicians have no ability to solve any problems because they are not students of behavior. They…

— Jacque Fresco

Teaching is a good preparation for politics because you have to reply to questions when you don't know the answer.

— Keith Best

There is this concept of politics as a dirty game.

— George Papandreou

We are ever aware that politics is an ugly struggle that determines 'who gets what, when, and how.' It is the favorite occupation of…

— Hans F. Sennholz

“Politics is the participation of the citizen in his government. The kind of government he has depends entirely on the quality of that participation.…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Politics isn't only about government. Politics is about the people.

— Young Jeezy

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill it teaches the whole people by its example.

— Timothy McVeigh

Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I don't think politics just happens in Parliament. It happens on the streets and in classrooms.

— Caroline Lucas