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Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend.

— David Trimble

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Politics is activity in relation to power.

— Francis Parker Yockey

In today's politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They're infuriating, all of them.

— Jim Broadbent

Politics is the art of realizing what there is to realize.

— Adam Michnik

So begins a question which has of late become more and more urgent: what is the relation of aesthetics to politics?

— Mark Poster

People feel overloaded, that politics has become kind of a public utility: hot- and cold-running politics any time of the day or night.

— Richard Ben Cramer

It's not unusual to find big political shifts that take place beneath the surface before they're visible above the surface.

— Al Gore

Politics is intensely physical: your hands touch, clasp and hold, and your eyes are always reaching for contact. None of this came naturally to me. I'd always put my trust in words and let the words do the work, but in politics, the real message is physical.

— Michael Ignatieff

Politics has high and low moments. Sometimes it brings out the better angels of our nature; sometimes baser instincts.

— Jim Leach

✗Opposing Perspectives

Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.

— John F. Kennedy

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