#politics

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. ↗

— Eugene McCarthy

#coach #dumb #dumb enough #enough #football

If the planters carry politics into the fields they will find it bad business. ↗

— Charles E. Merrill

#business #carry #fields #find #into

I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers. ↗

— Ann Miller

#girl #i #never #party #party girl

Imagine all contradictions, all possible incompatibilities--you will find them in the government, in the law-courts, in the churches, in the public shows of this droll nation. ↗

— Voltaire

#politics #imagination

We have drained common sense out of our politics. The more we focus on tactics and games, the more good people check out and give up. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#common #common sense #drained #focus #games

I have never taken a job or done a job where I felt I needed to leave my conscience at the door. One of the the great things about not being in politics as a career is that I can do this job without thinking about my career. I can think about what we're trying to do, what we're trying to accomplish and what we're trying to leave. ↗

— Deval Patrick

#accomplish #being #career #conscience #done

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. ↗

— Chris Patten

#am #baggage #bit #britain #carried

Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#objects #politics #skilled #use

There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics. ↗

— Robert Peel

#few #least #me #politics #seem

I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#mystery #politics #life