“Could politics ever be anything but politics, practical, cynical, compromised, ugly?”
Kim Stanley Robinson (1952) American science fiction writer
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 8, “The Green and the White” (p. 363)
“Politics is a game of compromise.”
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“You make interstellar politics sound a very dirty game.”
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“It is, but disapproving of dirt doesn’t remove it.”
Source: Empire novels (1950–1952), The Currents of Space (1952), Chapter 14 “The Renegade” (p. 141)