Politics is the attempt to achieve power and prestige without merit.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.
Politics is activity in relation to power.
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.
There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.
Politics is the conspiracy of the unproductive but organized against the productive but unorganized.
I don't think there's any one definition, but to do effective political work you have to have vision and practicality, and learn how to persuade people that what you feel needs to be done does need to be done.
Politics is a place of humble hopes and strangely modest requirements, where all are good who are not criminal and all are wise who are not ridiculously otherwise.
Politics is the art of achieving political goals - of achieving what is possible in a given situation - that is, in a situation that has its conditions and its limits.
But the ability to articulate what you are doing, to be clear about it, and to stick to it is, I think, the essence of political leadership.
Politics is not about power.