Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

政治是个不错的职业。如果你成功了，你会得到很多回报;如果你让自己丢脸了，你总可以写一本书。

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

政治不是游戏。这是一件严肃认真的事。

Politics is not a picture on a wall or a television sitcom that you can decide you don't much care for.

政治不是挂在墙上的一幅画，也不是你可以决定不太喜欢的电视情景喜剧。

Politics is not about money.

政治与金钱无关。

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

政治不是为了赢而赢。

Politics is not an exact science.

政治不是一门精确的科学。

Politics is not bean bags. It's serious, tough stuff.

政治不是豆袋。这是很严肃，很艰难的事情。

Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.

政治不是预测，也不是观察。政治就是我们所做的。政治是我们所做的，政治是我们所创造的，是我们所为之努力的，是我们所希望的，是我们敢于想象的。

Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

政治不是可能性的艺术。它包括在灾难和不愉快之间做出选择。

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

政治可能是唯一一种不需要任何准备的职业。

Politics is shit; it corrupts everything it touches.

政治是屎;它破坏了它所接触的一切。

Politics is something similar to the lower physiological functions, with the unpleasant difference that political functions are unavoidably carried out in public.

政治是一种类似于低级生理功能的东西，其令人不快的不同之处在于，政治功能不可避免地在公共场所进行。

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.

政治是一种折磨，我建议我爱的每一个人不要和它混在一起。

Politics is the art of controlling your environment.

政治是控制环境的艺术。

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.

政治是一种找麻烦、到处找麻烦、诊断错误并采取错误补救措施的艺术。