Freebsd Fortunes 5

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
                -- Arthur C. Clarke

Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have
been, and never will be wrong.
                -- Walter Dwight

Politics -- 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

Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and
without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in
for politics.
                -- Albert Camus

Politics are almost as exciting as war, and quite as
dangerous.  In war, you can only be killed once.
                -- Winston Churchill

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the
systematic organisation of hatreds.
                -- Henry Adams, "The Education of Henry Adams"

Politics is like coaching a football team.  You have to be smart
enough to understand the game but not smart enough to lose interest.

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

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

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next
week, next month and next year.  And to have the ability afterwards to
explain why it didn't happen.
                -- Winston Churchill