Pole/politics

Famous quotes containing the words pole and/or politics:

    “Oh Sleep! it is a gentle thing,
    Beloved from pole to pole!
    To Mary Queen the praise be given!
    She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
    That slid into my soul.”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are “up to a point.””
    —George F. Will (b. 1941)