"Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds." ― Henry Adams Topic(s): Politics More From Henry Adams "Politics are a very unsatisfactory game." "American society is a sort of flat, fresh-water pond which absorbs silently, without reaction, anything which is thrown into it." "I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him." More In Politics "I have been poor and I wanted to document poverty; I had lost a child and I was obsessed with birth; I was interested in politics and I wanted to know how it affected our lives; I am a woman and I wanted to know about women."― Eve Arnold "I’ll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can’t go back in life. I won’t go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way."― Karl Rove "Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country – and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians."― Charles Krauthammer