Freebsd Fortunes 5

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

Politics, like religion, hold up the
torches of matrydom to the reformers of error.
                -- Thomas Jefferson

Politics makes strange bedfellows, and journalism makes strange politics.
                -- Amy Gorin

politics, n:
        A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.
        The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
                -- Ambrose Bierce

Pollyanna's Educational Constant:
        The hyperactive child is never absent.

POLYGON:
        Dead parrot.