#politics

Politics is a strong and slow boring of hard boards. It takes both passion and perspective. Certainly all historical experience confirms the truth - that man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out for the impossible. But to do that a man must be a leader, and not only a leader but a hero as well, in a very sober sense of the word. And even those who are neither leaders nor heroes must arm themselves with that steadfastness of heart which can brave even the crumbling of all hopes. This is necessary right now, or else men will not be able to attain even that which is possible today. ↗

— Max Weber

#experience

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#capable #honour #meanness #party #political

Finality is not the language of politics. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#language #politics

Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois. ↗

— Dick Durbin

#diverse #home #home state #illinois #our

I never had a single conversation about politics with Ross Perot in my life; still haven't. ↗

— James Stockdale

#conversation #had #haven #i #life

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand. ↗

— Milton Friedman

#charge #desert #federal #federal government #government

In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#business #covered #dissatisfaction #emotions #gradually

It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.' ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#conservative #enough #former #liberal #mugged

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#campaigns #congressional #dollars #government #may

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #hundred #poverty #stimulated #talent