"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other."
                                        Oscar Ameringer

"All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies."
                                        John Arbuthnot

"Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity."
                                        Vera Brittain

"Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds."
                                        Henry Brooks Adams

"Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics."
                                        Albert Camus

"One has to be a lowbrow, a bit of a murderer, to be a politician, ready and willing to see people sacrificed, slaughtered, for the sake of an idea, whether a good one or a bad one."
                                        Henry Janes

"Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."
                                        George Orwell