Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
3.3 · 38 votes · 196 reads
- Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
4.2 · 20 votes · 132 reads
- Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.
5.0 · 43 votes · 176 reads
- Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Isaac NewtonMathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century
3.2 · 5 votes · 49 reads
- The art of governing mankind by deceiving them.
4.8 · 39 votes · 29 reads
- The courts of kings are full of people, but empty of friends.
SenecaPhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC
3.8 · 54 votes · 81 reads
- The first mistake in public business is going into it.
4.7 · 26 votes · 172 reads
- The political restructuring we pursue in China is aimed at advancing the self-improvement and development of the socialist political system. We will continue to expand people's democracy and build a socialist country under the rule of law in keeping with
Hu JintaoPoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century
5.0 · 37 votes · 50 reads
- The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent.
Karl MarxEconomistGerman1818 · 19th century
3.3 · 39 votes · 145 reads
- There are numerous bugbears in the profession of a politician. First, ordinary life suffers. Second, there are many temptations to ruin you and those around you. And I suppose third, and this is rarely discussed, people at the top generally have no friend
Boris YeltsinPoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century
3.0 · 21 votes · 156 reads
- There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in polic
Barack ObamaPoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
4.1 · 30 votes · 123 reads
- To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets.Barack Obama
PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century
4.3 · 19 votes · 121 reads
- Well, Italy had been overrun by the War, there had practically been civil war, north and south of the Gothic Line, heavy bombing, the northern industrial cities had been bombed heavily and we had political disorder before 1948.Gianni Agnelli
BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century
3.4 · 16 votes · 97 reads
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