Charles Julius Guiteau Quotes

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Policy and politics are always mixed up.

That is what politics is really about—reality and not image.

The challenge has been, we make policy in the world of politics.

Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.

Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.

By definition, politics is, or ought to be, division.

All politics is a combination of rhetoric and reality.

Over time, the best politics are policies that actually work …. Others in the White House are looking for short term political victories. The political hacks are just doing their jobs.

In every sort of politics, in history, it has its own problems, its leaders, its own opposition.

Politics is a literal game. Every word must represent a strict view - or be so abstract as to be meaningless.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.

Political debate is of no interest to me. What I want are practical solutions.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

Politics is the science of who gets what, when, and why.

Politics is the art of the possible.

A political theory seeks to find from history the limits of the politically possible.

Politics doesn't matter, policy does.

The essence of American politics consists of the manipulation of populism by elitism.

The dominant color of politics is gray; difficult choices and compromise are required at almost every step of the journey toward a major new program.

In an election year the state of the nation is the state of politics.

The attempt to treat politics as a branch of the profession of law [has] the disadvantage of refining issues to a point which no large society could comprehend.

The day-to-day making of policy is arguing all the time.

All participants in politics want to impose as much of their morality on others as possible.