politics 
poli·tics (päl′ə tiks)
- the science and art of political government; political science
- political affairs
- the conducting of or participation in political affairs, often as a profession
- political methods, tactics, etc.; sometimes, specif., crafty or unprincipled methods
- political opinions, principles, or party connections
- factional scheming for power and status within a group office politics
Etymology: polit(ic) + -ics
politics
n.
Political science
government, statesmanship, diplomacy, practical government, functional government, domestic affairs, internal affairs, foreign affairs, matters of state, Realpolitik (German), political realism. The business of obtaining public office
campaigning, getting votes, seeking nomination, electioneering, being up for election*, running for office*, standing to run*, throwing one's hat in the ring*, stumping the country*, taking the stump*.
Preposition: of
- envy: Talk of inequality sounds like the old politics of envy.
- cyberspace: Already the politics of cyberspace have begun to affect " real " politics.
- identity: He is the author of The Politics of Identity: A Loyalist Community In Belfast ( Avebury: 1994 ).
Converse of object
- dominate: He also explains how the British came to dominate the politics of the gulf region to the exclusion of virtually all other European powers.
- transcend: A truce between nations The Olympic ideal of international sport transcending politics has been enthusiastically promoted by the left in the past.
- enter: Formerly a teacher and consultant before entering politics, he is an enthusiastic Welsh learner.
- transform: Japan's advance through the Pacific and into Burma transformed Indian politics.
Adjective modifier
- British: Such a dynamic is entirely new in British politics.
- electoral: The 2001 election was the first in which the internet had an impact on UK electoral politics.
- comparative: He has a Master's degree in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics.
- progressive: Socialist Humanism: A progressive politics for the twenty-first century Mick Cooper 11.
- democratic: This was the first lesson in democratic politics that the British taught Nigerian politicians.
- radical: Radical politics, connoting change, can only offer promise, pledge.
Noun used with modifier
- identity: A get-together at Chelsea College of Art which appears to pit ' identity politics for artists ' against global capitalism.
- gender: Underneath, tho, it shows a knowledge of a particularly seedy side of life, where gender politics rule all.
- party: They are more often than not turned off by party politics or even politics generally.
- coalition: The rise of the Liberals in Aberdeen underlines the pitfalls of coalition politics at the level of the Parliament.
- consensus: Like Peel she was a provincial, but quite unlike him she despised consensus politics.
- front-line: He's relatively new to front-line politics, replacing Frank Dobson when he went off to be humiliated in the London Mayoral elections.
I have the most reliable friend that you can have in American politicsöready money.
Eisenhower hasa magic in American politics that is peculiarly his: he makes people happy.
Why, this fellow doesn't know any more about politics than a pig on Sunday.
C'est un axiome de la science politique aux EŁ tats-Unis, que le seul moyen de neutraliser les effets des journaux est d'en multiplier le nombre. It isanaxiomof politicsinthe United States, thatthe only means of neutralising the effects of newspapers is to increase their number.
'Beauty' is a currency like the gold standard. Like any economy it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in theWest it isthe last, best belief systemthat keeps male domination intact.
The best politics isgood government.
Ireland is one of the few countriesöperhaps the lastöwhere the boundaries between politics and art have never been fixed.
The choice in politics isn't usually between black and white. It is between two horrible shades of grey.
The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcasses of old policies.
The new, old, and constantly changing language of politics is a lexicon of conflict and dramaridicule and reproachpleading and persuasion.
All the contact I have had with politicshas left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons.
Without the Empire we should be tossed like a cork in the cross current of world politics.It is at once our sword and our shield.
I didn't come into politics to change the Labour Party. I came into politics to change the country.
If something makes you cry, you have to do something about it.That'sthe difference betweenpolitics and guilt.
Don't be 'practical' in politics. To be practical in that sense means that you have schooled yourself to think along the lines, and in the grooves that those who rob you would desire you to think.
England is unrivalled for two thingsösport and politics.
Finality is not the language of politics.
If Conservative Backbench MPs wanttoget on inpolitics they will have to find a foothold in the narrow strip of land that lies between sycophancy and rebellion.
When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence of a bad historian; and there are times when I incline to judge all historians by their opinion of Winston Churchillöwhether they can see that, no matter how much better the details, often damaging, of man and career become known, he still remains, quite simply, a great man.
History is past politics, and politics is present history.
No science is immuneto the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.
In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.
In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if even suggested for ethical reasons.
Like art and politics, gangsterism is a very important avenue of assimilation into society.
I have never found, in a long experience of politics, that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
We are making politics a spectator sport in which our only duty is to vote somebody into office and then retire to the grandstands.
Whena mangoesinforpolitics over here, hehasnotime to labour, and any man that labours has no time to fool with politics.Over there, politics is an obligation; over here it's a business.
It is not in the outward and visible world of material life that the Celtic genius of Wales or Ireland can at this day hope to count for much; it is in the inward world of thought and science.What it has been, what is has done, what it will be or will do, as a matter of modern politics.
Men enter local politics solely as a result of being unhappily married.
There is a holy mistaken zeal in politics as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.
L'amour e¤ tait toujours me" le¤ aux affaires et les affaires a' l'amour. Love has always mixed with politics and politics with love.
There is more politics in football than in politics.
This is about more than our politics and our laws. This is about who we are, how we carry ourselves.
It seems to me a barren thing this Conservatismöan unhappy cross-breed, the mule of politics that engenders nothing.
I am neither a Whig nor aTory. My politics are described in one word, and that word is England.
A naked moment in politics.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in mid-stream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
You will never get on in politics, my dear, with that hair.
There are no true friends in politics.We are all sharks circling, and waiting, for traces of blood to appear in the water.
The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best.
One golden rule for people who want to get on in politics is to keep their traps shut in August.
So we have the Philistine of genius in religionöLuther; the Philistine of genius in politicsöCromwell; the Philistine of genius in literatureöBunyan.
A playful moderation in politics is just as absurd as a remonstrative whisper to a mob.
and poets should stay out of politics or become monsters I have become monsterous with politics.
La politique et le sort des hommes sont forme¤ s par des hommes sans ide¤ al et sans grandeur. Ceux qui ont une grandeur en eux ne font pas de politique. Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
Politics are much discussed, so are banks, so is cotton. Quiet peopleavoid the question of the Presidencythe great constitutional feature of this institution being, that directly theacrimonyof the last election is over, the next one begins.
Politics are now nothing morethanmeans of rising inthe world.
Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
You can't adopt politics as a profession and hope to remain honest.
Politics come from man. Mercy, compassion, and justice come from God.
Safe is spelled D-U-L-L. Politics has got to be a fun activity.
Thepractice of politicsintheEast may be defined byone wordödissimulation.
Politics is a blood sport.
Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.
Politics is just like show businessa hell of an opening, you coast for a while, you have a hell of a closing.
Being inpoliticsislikebeing a football coach.Youhaveto be smart enough to know the game and stupid enough to think it is important.
To me politics is like one of those annoying and potentially dangerous, but generally just painful, chronic diseases that you just have to put up with all your life if you happen to have contracted it. Politics is like having diabetes.
Politics is not an exact science.
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. See Butler176:34.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.
La politique est l'art d'empe" cher les gens de se me" ler de ce qui les regarde. Politics istheart of preventing people fromtaking part in affairs which concern them.
Politics is the art of the possible. See Galbraith 343:94.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.
Politics is too important to be left to the politicians.
Politics is war without bloodshed; war is politics with bloodshed.
Dogs make you walk. Politics make you think.Only boredom makes you old.
La politique au milieu des inte¤ re" ts d'imagination, c'est un coup de pistolet au milieu d'un concert. Politics mixed with the imagination is like a shot fired in the middle of a concert.
Entitlement spendingöthe politics of greed wrapped in the language of love.
The politics of numbers.
He is a kind of fourth estate in the politics of the country.
Our course in the House of Lords ought to be very firm and uncompromising but moderatean example of what has since been called the politics of the extreme centre.
The businessman dealing with a large political question is reallya painfulsight.It doesseemtomethat businessmen, with a fewexceptions, are worse when theycometo deal with politics than men of any other class.
I agree with you that in politics the middle way is none at all.
Practical politics consists in ignoring the facts.
La presse exerce encore un immense pouvoir en Ame¤ rique. Elle fait circuler la vie politique dans toutes les portions de ce vaste territoire. C'est elle dont l'½il toujours ouvert met sans cesse a' nu les secrets ressorts de la politique, et force les hommes publics a' venir tour a' tour compara|"tre devant le tribunal de l'opinion. C'est elle qui rallie les inte¤ re" ts autour de certaines doctrines et formule le symbole des partis; c'est par elle que ceux-ci se parlent sans se voir, s'entendent sans e" tre mis en contact. The presshas enormous power in America.It isthe press that circulates political life through all parts of this vast territory. Its eye is always open, and making known the secret springs of politics, thus forcing public men to appear before the tribunal of public opinion. It is the press which rallies the interests of the community round certain principles and forms the creed of different parties. Through the press these parties can speak to each other without seeing each other, can listenwithout meeting.
In Slaka, sex is just politics with the clothes off.
A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion.
Thus you see, Sir, that these people are not so unpolished as we represent them.'Tis true, their magnificence is of a different taste from ours, and perhaps of a better. I am almost of opinion, they have a right notion of life. They consume it in music, gardens, wine, and delicate eating, while we are tormenting our brains with some scheme of politics, or studying some sciencetowhichwe canneverattain, or, if we do, cannot persuade other people to set that value upon it we do ourselves We die or grow old before we can reap the fruit of our labours.Considering what short-lived weak animals men are, is there any study so beneficial as the study of present pleasure?
South Africa, renowned both far and wide For politics and little else besides.
The sooner the Crown Colony system is removed from thesphere of practical politicsand put underaglasscase in the South Kensington Museum, labelled 'Extinct', the better for everyone.
The politics of our society are a conversation in which past, present and future each has a voice; and though one or other of them may on occasion properly prevail none permanently dominates, and on this account we are free.
There are times in politics whenyou must be on theright side and lose.
To err is human; to blame it on the other party is politics.
The view of history that we get through the kitchen window is a more gentle view, not of war and politics, but of familyand communityand sharing.
In Singapore you don't volunteer to go into politicsöyou are invited to enter.
Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.
A week is a long time in politics.
Being criticizedhe never did get it through his head that that's what politics is all about.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so onöand found that none ofthesefinally satisfy, or permanently wearöwhat remains? Nature remains.
Without alienation, there can be no politics.
Then down came the lidöthe day was lost, for art, at Sarajevo.World-politics stepped in, and a war was started whichhasnot ended yet: 'a war to end war'.But it merely ended art. It did not end war.
You will find in politics that you are much exposed to the attribution of false motives. Never complain and never explain.
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