I do believe that the following quotes are some of the best compiled regarding politics and bureaucracy. They are applicable from local government to the oval office.
Enjoy!
In politics you must always keep running with the pack. The moment that you falter and they sense that you are injured, the rest will turn on you like wolves.
R. A. Butler
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Lester B. Pearson
The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.
Larry Hardiman
The problem with political jokes is they get elected.
Henry Cate VII
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Ernest Benn
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Charles De Gaulle
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
Paul Valery
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Voltaire
I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.
Will Rogers
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Brooks Atkinson
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Peter
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