David Lloyd George Quotes

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Politics has been very good to me. Politics can become, and often is, very brutal

I was not meant for the job or the spotlight of public office in Washington. Here ruining people is considered a sport … Politics is a blood sport.

You don't have to be a political genius to sniff the smell of blood in the water.

Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

Politics is comparable to boxing. The only thing is that in politics there are basically no rules. In boxing, you can get a black eye, but in politics you can get poison in your food or a bullet in the head. It's definitely rougher and tougher than other sports.

Politics is a blood sport.

Despite an occasional nagging misgiving, I quickly found myself prepared to use the serrated edge of the political knife in the Johnson White House.

And so I am launched again upon the faithless wave of politics.

Politics is having one foot in a fire and using the other foot to keep off the people who are trying to push you the rest of the way in.

Politics—where they pat you on the back so they'll know where to stick the knife.

You are living in an unreal world when you work there [the White House.]

After … years of political life most men acquire enemies as ships acquire barnacles.

I have always wondered why the Muslim world is in the eye of virtually every storm, in my lifetime at least?

A politician’s instinct is for self-survival.

I thought you would have to be insane to go into politics.

Present day politics is getting murkier by the day.

I wouldn't want to go into mainstream, Downing Street politics, though - it's just too cut-throat. I've got quite thin skin.

Careerism in Washington "goes to the heart of what's wrong in America right now."

Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.

All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals.

It had long been established in the Civil Worlds that public business was to be transparent, and personal business opaque; but it was as well recognised that the two would always have a turbulent interface, and that the clique, the caucus, and the conspiracy were as ineradicable features of civility as the council or the committee.

I don't remember what they said, only the fury of their words, how the air turned raw and full of welts. Later it would remind me of birds trapped inside a closed room, flinging themselves against the windows and the walls, against each other.

I think the world of politics is pretty sleazy.

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.