Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.1.

Practical politics consists in ignoring the facts.

-Adams, Henry Brooks
  The Education of Henry  Adams, ch.22.

I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.

-Adams,John
  Letter to Horatio Gates, 23 Mar.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

-Amis, Sir Kingsley
  'Socialism and the Intellectuals'.

To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.

-Anonymous
  In the Washingtonian, Nov.

Entitlement spendingöthe politics of greed wrapped in the language of love.

-Armey, Dick (Richard Keith)
  On President  Johnson's legacy to his party. In the US News &  World Report,12 Dec.

It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.

-Arnold, Matthew
  'On the Study of Celtic Literature'.

So we have the Philistine of genius in religionöLuther; the Philistine of genius in politicsöCromwell; the Philistine of genius in literatureöBunyan.

-Arnold, Matthew
  Mixed Essays,'Lord Falkland'.

You will never get on in politics, my dear, with that hair.

-Viscountess ne¤  e Langhorne
Attributed remark addressed to Shirley Williams.

If Conservative Backbench MPs wanttoget on inpolitics they will have to find a foothold in the narrow strip of land that lies between sycophancy and rebellion.

-Baker (of Dorking), Kenneth Baker, Baron
  Queen's Speech in the House of Commons.

You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motives. Never complain and never explain.

-Baldwin (of Bewdley), Stanley Baldwin, 1st Earl
  Advice to Harold Nicholson.

Politics is a blood sport.

-Bevan, Aneurin
Quoted in  Jennie Lee My Life with Nye (1980).

Politics is not an exact science.

-of)
  Speech to the Prussian Chamber,18 Dec.

   I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.

-Blair,Tony (Anthony Charles Lynton)
  Speech at the Labour Party Conference, 30 Sep.

In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.

-Bradbury, Malcolm Stanley
  Rates of Exchange, pt.4, ch.3.

No science is immuneto the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

-Bronowski,Jacob
In The Listener.

Politics is the art of the possible. See Galbraith 343:94.

-Butler, Baron
The Art of the Possible.

South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else besides.

-Campbell, (Ignatius) Roy Dunnachie
  'The Wayzgoose'.

La politique et le sort des hommes sont forme¤  s par des hommes sans ide¤  al et sans grandeur. Ceux qui ont une grandeur en eux ne font pas de politique. Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

-Camus, Albert
Carnets,1935^42 (published1962).

Dogs make you walk. Politics make you think.Only boredom makes you old.

-Baroness
  In the Daily Mail,11  Jan.