James Harrington Quotes

Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so you are tearing into as many as you can.

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

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

I majored in political communications, so I intended to be a diplomat.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

That is simple my friend. Because politics is more complicated than physics.

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

What I love to do is the policy. The politics, I'm brand-new at.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

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

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

The first requirement of a statesman is that he be dull.

I've been a political junkie for a long time. I find the way Washington works is just fascinating to me.

I loved politics and, I confess, I enjoyed politicians immensely.

I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

He has the best political mind of all the generals I have.

The Secretary of State has always stood as much alone as the historian. Required to look far ahead and around him, he measures forces unknown to party managers, and has found Congress more or less hostile since Congress first sat.

Politics is a matter of communications.

... knew more about world politics than all the cabinet ministers in office.

Study history. Study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft.

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future

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

I know the rule. I know law. I know economics. I know parliament. That's an explosive combination.

I was a political science major in college because that's where my head was.