Quotes About Conflict

Politics has rough manners, but it is a very useful thing.

Politics are always a struggle for power, disguised and modified by prudence, reason and moral pretext.

Winston [ Churchill] is a dandy and a visionary. Unfortunately, in winning wars, principles are inevitably debased. That's politics.

I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth.

Terrorist bombers on the left, fascist plots on the right.

War is far worse. At least where politics is going on, there are usually nice hors d'oeuvres.

Suppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!

Here is one of the first rules of politics: it's not enough that I do well; I must also destroy my enemy.

Thank God for the bomb. Nuke ya, nuke ya.

There is a lot in American politics (and in American life) that is angry, greedy, reckless and violent.

It's generally not wise to pick a fight with law enforcement in politics, especially when you're in the middle of a pretty significant scandal already.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong.

The way politics divides the world is into friend and enemy

When you're in politics sometimes you step on toes and they come back and kick you in the backside.

Military missions cannot be a normal tool of politics, but instead must remain the great exception.

The conflict between art and politics... cannot and must not be solved.

I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for...

Unfortunately, in the world today, we have dogmatic people entering into politics. I don't think the two mix.

All you need to know about Arafat was that he insisted on wearing a pistol when he addressed the UN General Assembly. And all you need to know about the UN, I suppose, is that they let him.

I think generational trauma also plays a big part in the reactions to Israeli politics.

I was tenaciously opposed by the governor and deputy-governor of the Bank, who had seats in parliament, and I had the City for an antagonist on almost every occasion.

When people tap into this politics of resentment, it usually ends ugly.

Right now, politics follows the rules of talk radio - using conflict, tension, fear, and resentment to find new recruits.

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.