Politics would be a helluva good business if it weren't for the goddamned people.

My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life of the highest kind namely politics of philosophical ideas instead of political principles.

Few businessmen are capable of being in politics they don't understand the democratic process they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.

After you have exhausted what there is in business politics conviviality and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains.

Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening coast for a while and then have a hell of a close.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

A lot of women these days a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap hideous 'girl power' sort of fad which I think is pretty benign at best but at worst I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

In politics strangely enough the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics and in the modern age in the West is is the last best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

In the 19th century you had bourgeois art without politics - an almost frozen idea of what beauty is.

Although as a sailor I despised politics - for I loved my sailor's life and still love it today - conditions forced me to take up a definite attitude towards political problems.

Today I think the attitude is that governing is not necessarily good politics and the result is that it's much more partisan and much more divided.

In an era ruled by materialism and unstable geopolitics art must be restored to the center of public education.

I am an anarchist in politics and an impressionist in art as well as a symbolist in literature. Not that I understand what these terms mean but I take them to be all merely synonyms of pessimist.

It's an honor putting art above politics. Politics can be seductive in terms of things reductive to the soul.

Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business.

I've always said that an art critic can put aside politics around art.

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible possible.

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

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

Architecture is politics.