Politics is a dirty business, a ruse, an ideological cul-de-sac, a vast looter of intellectual and financial resources, a lie that corrupts, a deceiver, a means of unleashing vast evil in the world of the most unexpected and undetected sort and the greatest diverter of human productivity ever concocted by those who do not believe in authentic social and economic progress.

Marriage is a desperate thing.

Desperate affairs require desperate measures.

Tragedy, in our times, is politics.

The sad fact is that international politics has always been a ruthless and dangerous business, and it is likely to remain that way.

Political questions are far too serious to be left to the politicians.

We mean by "politics" the people's business — the most important business there is.

Politics is as much a regular business as the grocery or the dry-goods or the drug business. You've got to be trained up to it or you're sure to fail. <small>p. 19</small>

The type of people who gravitate to the government system are doing this out of desperation and they don't really have the answers, and eventually... [will] fail.

Everything is politics.

It's all about politics, and it's stupid.

When politics degrades itself to political adventurism the nation would be on the calamitous road to inevitable disaster and ruination.

The desperate policies of panic-driven governments involve throwing huge amounts of money at the economies collapsed in response to the coronavirus threat. s create money and lend it at extremely low interest rates to the major corporations and especially big banks "to get them through the crisis." Government treasuries borrow vast sums to get the collapsed economy back into what they imagine is "the normal, pre-virus economy." Capitalism's leaders are rushing into policy failures because of their ideological blinders.

Politics becomes a horse race, and a tragicomedy motivated by greed, backstage manoeuvres, betrayals, and, often, sex and violence – a genre increasingly indistinguishable from TV scripts.