Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of free men is worth having, for it is the only praise which is free from either servility or condescension.
Bernard CrickThe agony of international relations is the need to try to practice politics without the basic conditions for political order.
Bernard CrickThe plain truth is that what holds a free state together is neither general will nor a common interest, but simply politics itself.
Bernard Crick