“Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.”– John Kenneth Galbraith Related Quotes “I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.”– Moira Kelly “It’s like being at the kids’ table at Thanksgiving – you can put your elbows on it, you don’t have to talk politics… no matter how old I get, there’s always a part of me that’s sitting there.”– John Hughes “It would be great if politics were fact-based, but it is not, and it is surely not nuance-based. What works in a classroom or a think tank does not work on Capitol Hill or in the White House. Obama sometimes seems to be running the Brookings Institution, not the country.”– Jon Meacham