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| Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. | | John Kenneth Galbraith | |
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| Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it. | | Thomas Jefferson | |
| Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. | | Ronald Reagan | |
| Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. | | Groucho Marx | |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. | | Paul Valery | |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. | | Paul Valery | |
| Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. | | Paul Valery | |
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| Politics is the art of the possible, the attainable - the art of the next best | | Otto von Bismarck | |
| Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men | | George Jean Nathan | |
| Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. | | Frank Zappa | |
| Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other | | Oscar Ameringer | |
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| Politics will eventually be replaced by imagery. The politician will be only too happy to abdicate in favor of his image, because the image will be much more powerful than he could ever be. | | Marshall McLuhan | |
| Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. | | Ambrose Bierce | |
| Politics: “Poli” a Latin word meaning “many”; and "tics" meaning “bloodsucking creatures”. | | Robin Williams | |
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