Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

 —Groucho Marx

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.                 —H. L. Mencken

If there is one eternal truth of politics, it is that there are always a dozen good reasons for doing nothing.                —John le Carre

Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.         —Peggy Noonan

I hold it, that a little rebellion, now and then, is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical.

 —Thomas Jefferson

The politician is ... trained in the art of inexactitude. His words tend to be blunt or rounded, because if they have a cutting edge they may later return to wound him.                        —Edward R. Murrow

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn’t in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.               —Charles Kuralt

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.                —Doug Larson

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber. —Plato

We believe that to err is human. To blame it on someone else is politics.            —Hubert H. Humphrey

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.   —Pericles

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.        —Napoleon Bonaparte

The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.

 —Buckminster Fuller

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

—Ronald Reagan