Harold MacMillan Quotes

A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

A week is a long time in politics. A month is an eternity.

In politics, sunny days and rainy days can change very quickly.

You never know what'll happen in politics.

A week is a long time in politics.

A week is a long time in politics.

Forty-eight hours is a long time in politics

In politics, love is a stranger, and when it intrudes upon it nothing is being achieved except hypocrisy.

Politics is about realities, not logic.

There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real discourse or a real argument.

... politics are nothing but sand and gravel: it is art and life that feed us until we die. Everything else is ambition, hysteria or hatred.

All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe.

Politics is more than policy, right. Like, one thing that has occurred to me is Bernie Sanders is clearly a very adept and able politician, right. But he spent 30 years being a very adept and able politician in an almost entirely white state.

Politics never takes a holiday in Chicago.

It really doesn't take brains to be a politician as much as it takes stomach. Both would be nice, but in America we have accepted diminishing returns in this arena.

There is no such thing as a nonpolitical speech by a politician.

I've heard this theory that this is basically Jeb's [Bush] people trying to get their supporters to basically put the stake in Marco Rubio because if people are talking about accepting [Donald] Trump over [Ted] Cruz, what they're really saying is Marco Rubio's no longer viable.

Politics is like sausage being made. It is unsavory, and it always has been that way, but we usually end up where we need to be.

A political place with no power, only influence, is not to my taste.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy.

Politics? Ha! You couldn't get into politics. You couldn't get in anywhere. You couldn't even get in the men's room at the Astor!

American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth.

There's a lot of political things happening out there that I'd really have to get away from.

It's been an unusual election [2016].

Politics is like driving. To go backward put it in R. To go forward put it in D.