Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
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Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is tricky; it cuts both ways. Every time you make a choice, it has unintended consequences.
Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times.
A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Politics is the art of the possible.
Politics is the art of the possible; creativity is the art of the impossible.