*** 1. Politics is the art of control

*** 2. Politics is the art of recuperation.

*** 3. Politics is the art of repression.

*** 4. Politics is the art of separation.

*** 5. Politics is the art of representation.

*** 6. Politics is the art of mediation.

*** 7. Politics is the art of impersonality.

*** 8. Politics is the art of deferment.

*** 9. Politics is the art of accommodation.

*** 10. Politics is the art of calculation.