Winston Churchill Quotes

Being in politics is like coaching football. You have to be smart enough to understand the game and dumb enough to think it's important.

Politics is a tough business.

Bishops and judges are some of the best politicians in the world. They know how to manipulate the political process.

War has rules, mud wrestling has rules - politics has no rules.

Running for president is hard. But it's good preparation. Because being president is a lot harder.

Today being President is really no different than running for President. It’s about approval ratings and photo ops and damage control and deniability.

In our form of democracy the expression of the popular will can be effected only through the instrumentality of political parties.

Politics is the management of expectations.

I ended up in Parliament and soon discovered that emotion really doesn't have any place in politics. It's a much more intricate and complicated game, and I just didn't know how to play it.

Politics is a matter of communications.

Issues are a problem for politicians most of the time; the reason is that somebody won't like what you say when you start talking issues.

Elections are about fucking your enemies. Winning is about fucking your friends.

[Politics in America is:] A chess tournament disguised as a circus.

Politicians worry about downside political risks. Generally speaking, they are risk minimizers.

Politics, you will observe, is the science of guessing right.

A good politicians knows his friends and a good politician knows his enemies.

Politics is the art of acquiring, holding and wielding power.

What is politics but persuading the public to vote for this and support that and endure these for the promises of those.

What does democracy come down to? The persuasive power of slogans invented by wily self-seeking politicians.

To be a politician must not be a pleasure always.

Politics is about timing and situations.

Mr. President, we need to be strong and firm, but that doesn't mean you have to commit political suicide.

For the politician the goal is always to be in the government.... Everything is about the struggle for office. The purpose of power, the problem to solve, is forgotten.

In the absence of formal written platforms, the antecedents of candidates become their platforms. On just such platforms all our earlier and better Presidents were elected.

Statecraft, as these cases convincingly illustrate, is demanding and often exhausting work. There are risks, and success is not guaranteed. It requires major governmental and political resources and the same kind of hourly, year-round planning and execution as the conduct of a military campaign.