Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
That government is not a necessary good but an unavoidable evil.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.
Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
In politics the choice is constantly between two evils.
A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.