Quotes of Expedient - somelinesforyou

“ War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support. ”

- Colin Powell

“ If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics. ”

- Will Rogers

“ If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Politics begin where the masses are, not where there are thousands, but where there are millions, that is where serious politics begin. ”

- Vladimir Lenin

“ We were begging for more resources, and you know, eventually, we got enough resources. It just took more days than we wanted it to take. ”

- Kathleen Blanco

“ All the resources we need are in the mind. ”

- Theodore Roosevelt

“ The introduction of religious passion into politics is the end of honest politics, and the introduction of politics into religion is the prostitution of true religion. ”

- Lord Hailsham

“ Politics, when I am in it, it makes me sick. ”

- William Howard Taft

“ Politics makes strange postmasters. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Politics is war without bloodshed, while war is politics with bloodshed. ”

- Mao Zedong

“ Getting anything changes it from being desirable to just being taken for granted. ”

- Unknown

“ Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Technology is like a fish. The longer it stays on the shelf, the less desirable it becomes. ”

- Andrew Heller

“ There are no politics in war. Politics is the luxury of the safe-at-home. War is a lottery of survival. ”

- John Cory

“ Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you. ”

- Pericles

“ He scratched his ear, the infallible resource to which embarrassed people have recourse. ”

- Lord Byron

“ Getting anything changes it from being desirable to just being taken for granted. ”

- Unknown

“ Party honesty is party expediency. ”

- Unknown

“ I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now. ”

- Jeffrey Archer

“ I'm not involved in politics any more and they're quite right. ”

- Jeffrey Archer

“ The movies were custard compared to politics. ”

- Nancy Reagan

“ I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country. ”

- Tony Blair

“ An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. ”

- Adlai Stevenson

“ I think that what most surprises anybody who goes into politics from even a modestly cerebral background is the vulgarity of much of the cut and thrust of politics. ”

- Chris Patten

“ Adherents of the new religious right reject the separation of politics and religion, but they bring no spiritual insights to politics. ”

- Christopher Lasch

“ People are very interested in politics, they just don't like it labelled politics. ”

- Douglas Hurd

“ Well, you know what, I'm 60 years old, and I've been interested in politics since I was on my daddy's knee. During the 1948 election, we were praying for Truman. I know a lot about politics. ”

- Roger Ebert

“ My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life. ”

- Carl Andre

“ Living by proxy is always a precarious expedient. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ It is sometimes expedient to forget who we are. ”

- Publilius Syrus
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