Walter Isaacson Quotes

I believe all universities should at least offer courses in politics and policy implementation.

Politics are for the moment. An equation is for eternity.

I hold them [politics] to be subject to laws as fixed as matter itself, and to be as fit a subject for the application of the highest intellectual power.

I think politics is everything.

She didn't know a lot about politics – yet – but she'd learned enough in her history classes to know politics could always be counted on to make a bad situation worse.

There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as well be called laws of nature.

I think the life we are living now is just a blink in the eye of eternity.

Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.

Politics is a science. You can demonstrate that you are right and that others are wrong.

Politics are not an exact science.

Government is not an exact science.

… the science of government is an experimental science, and that, like all other experimental sciences, it is generally in a state of progression. No man is so obstinate an admirer of the old times as to deny that medicine, surgery, botany, chemistry, engineering, navigation, are better understood now than in any former age. We conceive that it is the same with political science

The belief that politics can be scientific must inevitably produce tyrannies. Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated, and the sciences depend upon their separation.

Politics cannot be a science, because in politics theory and practice cannot be separated

I would like to have insights into things like government, all those big ideas that you brought up that I simply don't have ideas about. I would like to be able to since so many people discuss them, but I don't want to work at them. I don't think my ambition is that strong in that direction.

I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable.

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

Politics is history in the making.

Politics is social work with power.

Politics are the divine science, after all.

For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often debased vocation known as politics (and its most exacting subspecialty - statecraft). Because if we don't get politics right, everything else risks extinction.

It's a funny thing, I think people meet us and they assume that we know a lot more about politics than we actually do. People will really get into it. I'm like, I don't really know a lot about tariff reform or export trade reform. That's really not something I know about.

To be honest, politics is so weird. I think it's more heavy than religion.

Politics is more difficult than physics.

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind.