Charles de Gaulle Quotes

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

Bush doesn't present himself as a realpolitik politician.

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.

At the heart of all problems lies the politics of the country.

Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.

All I wanted was to be involved in politics and government.

When you look at our world, the truth is that we're all under the influence of politics.

I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.

A demagogue is a person with whom we disagree as to which gang should mismanage the country.

Politics is the art of the possible.

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

There is a circus around politics. But if you think it is a game, then you forget what the purpose of politics actually is.

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

Exploitation and government are two inseparable expressions of what is called politics.

The statesman wishes to steer, while the politician is satisfied to drift.

Policy and politics are always mixed up.

History, in general, only informs us what bad government is.

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

In history lies all the secrets of statecraft.

Politics determine who has the power, not who has the truth.

The deeper we trace the political influences in history, the more are we convinced that the "will to power" has up to now been one of the strongest motives in the development of human social forms.

Politics is an interesting and engrossing thing. It offers no immutable laws, nearly always prevaricates, but as far as blather and sharpening the mind go, it provides inexhaustible material.

We are domesticated animals, revolving in a cage which we have built for ourselves - with its contentions, wranglings, its impossible political leaders, its gurus who exploit our self-conceit and their own with great refinement or rather crudely.

I'm well aware of the pragmatism of politics.

Normally, I stay away from politics - unless I'm going to run for president.