Real Politics Quotes

What I've found in working less is you start to get a bit more involved in the more real politics, which is local politics that affect what's going on in your own community.

The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I'd beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it.

Real politics are the possession and distribution of power.

If the ruler wants to play the game by himself and follow secret policies, he must present a decoy to the masses. He cannot escape the mass; but he can draw between himself and that mass an invisible curtain, a screen, on which the mass will see projected the mirage of some politics, while the real politics are being made behind it.

I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.