Henry Adams Quotes

I think I can regard myself as a political decision-maker.

I can't get inside the head of a politician today.

I think politics come out of psychology.

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

It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

I've been studying the Constitution for myself but also as a way for me, as a Democrat, to comprehend the Right. I think it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

Forget the consultants, the pundits and the pollsters; good policy is good politics.

I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton.

I wanted to have a political career. I thought studying political science would be the best way to achieve it.

It is one of the misfortunes of our political system that parties are formed more with reference to controversies that have gone by, than to the controversies which these parties have actually to decide.

Lunched with Jack Kennedy, the new Senator from Massachusetts. He has the making of a first-class Senator or a first-class fascist.

The political tendencies of the various social classes are based on a correct practical instinct.

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

Mario Ruiz Massieu's resignation places the ball very firmly in Zedillo's court. A key decision he will have to make is whether he is going to govern with, without, or against his own party.

I think there's a danger in politics of being too risk-averse.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

You have to be an optimist to be in politics.

Politics is not a science...but an art.

The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul.

I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way.

I'd love to be able to write an in-depth piece of what causes men like [Richard] Nixon and [H.R.]Haldeman and [John] Ehrlichman and all the rest of them not only to run, but what causes us to vote for them.

A friend asked one of my daughters, "Do you like politics?" And my daughter said, "No, I don't. And the reason I don't like it is because there's too much fighting, too much yelling. It's so loud, I don't like it." You know, I turned to my friend and I said, "You know, she's really on to something."

There's symbolism in politics. There's communication in politics. And I think what Donald Trump is saying is, give me the job, and when I get to that job I will figure it out.

Hillary Clinton's got bad judgment, and honestly, so bad that she should never be president of the United States.

CNN recently ran a sort of roundup article on why some conservatives say that Trump talk is fascist. The roundup included this tweet from Iowa Republican radio host, very influential guy in Iowa Republican caucuses, Steve Deace. Quote, "If [Barack] Obama proposed the same religion registry as Trump, every conservative in the country would call it what it is - creeping fascism."