Eric Greitens Quotes

Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.

I'm passionate about politics.

I was always interested in politics.

What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.

Knowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.

In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.

I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

Politics isn't a reality show or a gong show. It's not show business for ugly people. It's the arena where we define our common life in a rough and ready contest that has winners and losers.

No man can be a politician except he be first a historian.

… the science of government is an experimental science, and that, like all other experimental sciences, it is generally in a state of progression. No man is so obstinate an admirer of the old times as to deny that medicine, surgery, botany, chemistry, engineering, navigation, are better understood now than in any former age. We conceive that it is the same with political science

I hold them [politics] to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power.

I did not love politics. As a matter of fact, I hated politics. I loved governing which is … a different thing.

I've had an interest in politics since I was a little kid.

I studied political science at the Ecole de Sciences Politiques in Paris.

In undergraduate school, I chose a career path that always leads to certain unemployment: I majored in politics and public affairs with a double-minor in philosophy and history.

I'm a person who's always been interested in politics and thought it was a very noble occupation.

I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was interested in it. I hadn't really gotten super serious about it and I'd done a lot of student politics in high school. I really think it would be interesting and fun and challenging to go into politics.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

Obviously I think politics is interesting and important and educational.

Politics is social work with power.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

Politics is the practical exercise of the art of self-government, and somebody must attend to it if we are to have self-government; somebody must study it, and learn the art, and exercise patience and sympathy and skill to bring the multitude of opinions and wishes of self-governing people into such order that some prevailing opinion may be expressed and peaceably accepted. Otherwise, confusion will result either in dictatorship or anarchy. The principal ground of reproach against any American citizen should be that he is not a politician. Everyone ought to be, as Lincoln was.

No man has come so near our definition of a constitutional statesman - the powers of a first-rate man and the creed of a second-rate man.