Alphabetical Index of Topics

1. Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory. - John Kenneth Galbraith
2. Most people assume the fights are going to be the left versus the right, but it always is the reasonable versus the jerks. - Jimmy Wales
3. The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate VII
4. When the political columnists say 'Every thinking man' they mean themselves, and when candidates appeal to 'Every intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them. - Franklin P. Adams
5. Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy
6. Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy. - Ernest Benn
7. Politics is made up largely of irrelevancies. - Dalton Camp
8. I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians. - Charles De Gaulle
9. Man is by nature a political animal. - Aristotle
10. Crime does not pay... as well as politics. - Alfred E. Newman
11. It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs. - Albert Einstein